Cuttack: A betel shop owner in the city here displayed an extraordinary courage by taking on four motorcycle-borne miscreants and foiled their bid to snatch `5 lakh from a trader.
Badal Nayak successfully chased the black Pulsar gang and forced them to leave behind the cash bag. According to sources, the trader, whose identity was not ascertained yet, had withdrawn the cash from an Axis bank branch in the city Saturday. The trader was coming downstairs when the four miscreants followed him and threw stinging nettles at him.
The trader went to Nayak’s shop along the road and kept the bag containing the cash on the showcase. He asked Nayak for a water pouch to wash his body to get rid of the itching.
Soon two of the four desperadoes reached there on a Pulsar bike. While one youth was sitting on the bike keeping the vehicle on start mode, another youth went to the shop and asked for a water bottle. As the trader was washing his body, the youth grabbed the money bag from the showcase and sat on the back of the bike and fled. Although the trader tried to hold back the youth riding pillion by grabbing his shirt, they dragged him by a few metres and speeded up towards Dolamundai. Nayak jumped out of his shop and started chasing the robbers. As Nayak reached nearer to them, the youth holding the money bag tried to pass it to another robber riding pillion on another bike.
Nayak caught hold of the snatchers and had a fight with them. Finally, the robbers fled the spot leaving the cash bag. As the news of Nayak’s courageous act reached corporator Ranjan Biswal, the latter informed it to district collector Nirmal Chandra Mishra. The collector recommended Nayak’s name to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for bravery award.
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