According to Navapura police, the loot took place on Thursday around 9:15 pm when courier agent Sitaram Prajapati, belonging to Ramesh Chandra and Co, was coming back with a parcel containing Rs 2.26 lakh from several businessmen, when the robbers attacked from behind.

A Navapura police officer said the accused, aged about 40 years frisked Prajapati while one of them was holding a knife at his throat.

“Then they found the bundles of 500-rupee notes stashed inside a parcel and got away with the money on a black Pulsar motorcycle,” added a police officer.

On the other hand, city police managed to catch a chain snatcher near Atladra Police chowki on Friday with help of the pedestrians.

Javed Ansari tried stealing a gold-polished chain from a housewife, Hema Patel, near the General Motors showroom in Atladra. Makarpura police officers said that Patel was on her way to a private nursing home, where her relative is undergoing treatment, when the accused came from the back and tried to run away with the chain.