Jalandhar, April 8 -- The Jalandhar commissionerate police have arrested one of the two men involved in the Rs.6-lakh robbery at Punjab National Bank branch on Mithapur Road on Monday.

The suspect, Simranjit Singh, 49, is the son of a former Punjab Police deputy superintendent of police (DSP).

The robbery occurred around 2.30 pm on Monday when two masked men entered the bank posing as customers. They held a woman cashier at gunpoint and fled on a scooter with the cash. The incident was captured on CCTV cameras.

Commissioner of police Dhanpreet Kaur Randhawa said investigation teams used technical evidence and human intelligence to track and arrest Simranjit on Monday evening, just hours after the crime. Police recovered Rs.3 lakh of th...