Debit-ridden bank manager loots Mumbai ICICI branch, kills branch officer

Unwilling to give up without a fight, the two women started screaming for help and attempted to pin down Dubey who retaliated by attacking them both with the knife several times before breaking free to run out.

Palghar: Taking a page out of a crime thriller, a debt-ridden Axis Bank Branch Manager allegedly committed an unsuccessful heist on an ICICI Bank branch, stabbed a woman deputy branch head to death, before attempting to flee before being caught by locals, police said here on Friday. The incident happened on Thursday around 8 pm, after the close of banking hours at the ICICI Bank`s Virar East Branch, when most staffers had left for the day, barring two women officers. "The pr ime accused Anil Dubey -- the Naigaon Axis Bank Branch Manager, who is a former employee and ex-Manager of the ICICI Bank, has been arrested. There is no other person involved as of now," Virar Police Station Senior Police Inspector Suresh Warade told IANS. At the dark hour, Dubey drove down to the ICICI Bank branch, entered inside, whipped out a sharp weapon and threatened Deputy Manager Yogita Nishant Choudhary and her cashier colleague Shraddha Devrukhkar. He ordered them to hand over all the cash and jewellery which he dumped into a bag and attempted to flee the branch premises. Unwilling to give up without a fight, the two women started screaming for help and attempted to pin down Dubey who retaliated by attacking them both with the knife several times before breaking free to run out.