Latest News | Fake Police Robs House of Rs 36 Lakh in Kota, Take off with Cook

Kota, Nov 26 (PTI) Three men posing as police robbed Rs 36 lakh from a house in Kota City and abducted a cook working there, police said on Tuesday.

The incident took place in an area under the Gumanpura Police Station Monday afternoon.

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They abductors released the cook, identified as Vishal, around five kilometres away from the city on Rawatbhatta road late evening.

The robbery happened at a rented house where a few employees of a private finance firm had been living for the past five-six months, Gumanpura Police Station SHO Bhuri Singh said.

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According to police, two men dressed as police and a third in civilian clothes barged into the room around 4 pm Monday when there was no one else but the cook.

The men threatened the cook with a fake case, and took off with a bag from the room and him as hostage in a car.

Police have launched a hunt to nab the robbers and are examining the CCTV footage of the route, the SHO said.

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