Miscreants robbed a BRAC Bank officer of Tk 1 crore after stopping the bank\u2019s car he was in at Dakkhin Surma on the Sylhet\u2013Dhaka Highway, some 5km off the city centre, on Sunday afternoon. Bank officials said that Gawhar Altaf Chowdury, assistant manager of the
\nbank\u2019s branch at Bishwanath was carrying Tk 1 crore to his office in the car from Bandarbazar and Dakkhin Surma branches.
\nThe officials said that several young people riding two motorcycles stopped the car, carrying the bank officer and the money, at Atirbari about 3:00pm and took the bag, containing the money, at gun point.
\nThe bank officer Gawhar Altaf Chowdhury who was robbed told New Age that several miscreants had forced the car to pull over at Atirbari.
\n\u2018The miscreants snatched the key of the car from the driver and then took the bag that was kept on the back seat and left the place,\u2019 he said adding that there was no security personnel in the vehicle.
\n\u2018We carry money from one branch to another in and around the city quite often,\u2019 he said. He added that he and the driver, Sohel Ahmed, had not been hurt.
\nThe Bishwanath branch manager, Ali Ahsan Siddiquee Miran, also told New Age that there were no security personnel with Gawhar when he was carrying the money.
\nSMP deputy commissioner Mushfiqur Rahman told New Age in the afternoon that they had visited the spot immediately after the incident.
\n\u2018We got some discrepancy in the statements of the banker and the car driver,\u2019 he said.
\nThe police officer said that they were trying to trace the people involved in the looting.
\n\u2018The banker and his driver did not try to shout for help when the incident took place in a busy place in daylight,\u2019 the police officer said quoting the local people.
\nSMP additional commissioner SM Rokan Uddin said that the bank authorities usually seek police escort when carrying a large amount of money from one branch to another.
\n\u2018The BRAC Bank authorities did not inform us that they were carrying money. They also did not take their own security personnel,\u2019 he said.
\nThe BRAC Bank\u2019s chief security officer Saleh Ahmad Khan, however, told New Age that the bank authorities in Sylhet had told him that the officer had their own security personnel when the money was carried.<\/p>\n

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