PUNE: Once again huge cash was looted from employees of a petrol pump in Pune on Monday. The two employees of Bharat petroleum’s Beldare petrol pump near D Mart on Katraj bypass in Ambegaon Budruk were carrying Rs 22.95 lakh cash in a bag. They were riding a bike and going to deposit the cash when four unidentified persons on two bikes intercepted them just 200 meters from their petrol pump and attacked them with choppers and snatched away the bag. One of the employees sustained minor injuries and has been admitted in a private hospital.

As per the FIR registered with Bharati Vidyapeeth police station by one of the employees, Amol Badhe (26), they deposit the cash in a bank at Katraj chowk around 11.30 am every day. As there was bank holiday on Saturday and Sunday, huge cash was collected at the pump and not deposited.

At around 11 am, Badhe and his supervisor Vijaykumar Birajdar were carrying the cash to the bank. Badhe was riding the bike. When they reached near Rangoli tiles shop, two youths on a bike cut their way and hit a school van. The two youths fell down. And to see this Badhe stopped the bike. Soon two more youths came on a bike from behind and one of them started hitting Birajdar with a chopper. The youths who had fallen down also came and started beating Badhe and Birajdar. One of them snatched away the bag and they fled away through the service road.

Police officials said that it was a planned robbery, and the accused persons had studied the schedule of cash deposit in detail. They had also filled fuel at the petrol pump which could be seen in CCTV footage. The robbers had also put mud on the registration number of bikes so that they could not be identified.

As the police had launched nakabandi after the incident, the robbers had abandoned their bikes near Daripul on the bypass and escaped with the cash.

Police officials said that joint teams of the Crime Branch and local police are investigating the case.