Nagpur, June 5 -- : In a daring daylight robbery near Ambazari Lake in Nagpur, three unidentified assailants allegedly attacked a forex exchange manager by throwing chilli powder in his eyes and decamped with cash worth Rs 7.16 lakh, police said on Friday.
The victim, identified as Khilesh Sahu, a manager with a forex exchange firm in Raipur, was reportedly lured to Nagpur under the pretext of a foreign currency exchange deal.
According to police, Sahu had received a WhatsApp call from an unidentified person seeking to exchange US dollars for Indian currency.
Believing the transaction to be genuine, he arrived in Nagpur carrying Rs 7.16 lakh in cash.
The accused allegedly kept changing the meeting location and eventually directed Sahu t...