From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Dec 18: Even as almost all the ordinary citizens are struggling to withdraw cash from their own accounts with a large number of people waiting in long queues to withdraw their daily quota of Rs 2000 from ATMs, a van driver working for a cash logistics firm has done the vanishing trick with a cash logistics vehicle with Rs 20 lac in a cash box from Murugeshpalaya in Bengaluru on Saturday evening.

The driver has been identified as Hussain aged 25.

The vehicle was, however, found abandoned in HSR Layout later in the night a few distance away from the ATM kiosk and the cash trunk was found on a footpath in Bellandur on Sunday morning.

Police said 25-year-old Hussain was staying in a room in Koramangala and had been working in a private cash logistics firm for the past one month as a driver.

On Saturday evening around 5.15 p.m, the cash logistics vehicle was parked outside the State Bank of Mysore ATM in Murugeshpalaya and the gun man along with another staff was filling cash in the ATM.

Seizing the opportunity of the gunman and the staff filling the ATM with cash, Hussain drove off the vehicle.

"He probably got frightened that the police may track him and abandoned the vehicle in HSR Layout,” said a police officer.

A case has been registered in the Old Airport police station.

"We are searching for the suspect on the basis of CCTV footage," said the officer, adding: ''We will make all efforts to nab the suspect.’’