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AHMEDABAD: A 72-year-old man lost Rs 2 lakh, in cash, when he was picking up a Rs 10 note from the road, in Sector 7 in Gandhinagar on Tuesday afternoon. Two men had pointed to the note and told him to pick up ‘his money’. While he doing so, the two disappeared with his bag, which had Rs 2 lakh.

Zahiruddin Shaikh, a resident of Sector 7 in Gandhinagar, on Tuesday filed an FIR at Sector 7 police station , that he had withdrawn Rs 2 lakh from a bank in Sector 16 and he had Rs 20,000 on him.

“As he was going from the bank to his home in Sector 7 on his two-wheeler, two motorcycle-borne men called out to him saying that he had dropped his money. When he looked at the road, he saw a Rs 10 note there. He parked his two-wheeler and went to pick up the note. As he was doing so, a passerby shouted that the motorcycle-borne men had taken his bag,” the FIR reads.

Sector 7 police registered a case for theft and abetment and began an investigation .

