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Banking assistants shot at, Rs 3.25 lakh looted

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Agartala: Armed criminals fired at and injured two banking business correspondents – who help banks take their services to people’s doorstep – and Rs.3.25 lakh meant for rural jobs scheme in Tripura was looted from them, police said here Wednesday.

The hiest occurred late Tuesday at Hachupara, 65 km south of here.

“While two business correspondents — Samrat Bhowmik, 42, and Avik Kumar Dey, 38 — were carrying the Rs.3.25 lakh to distribute the money among the workers of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the culprits fired at them and looted the cash,” sub-divisional police officer Sharmistha Chakraborty told reporters.

Tripura Gramin Bank, a regional rural bank, has engaged local youths and retired bank officials as banking business correspondents to extend banking services to the doorstep of rural people. (IANS)

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