Agra: In a daring incident, a passenger bus was hijacked by some employees of a finance firm from New Southern Bypass in Agra on Wednesday morning while on its way to Gwalior from Gurugram.
The hijackers, from Agra-based finance firm Shree Ram Finance. f
orced the bus to stop, pushed the driver and helper to get off the vehicle and took control.
There were 34 passengers on board.
“Three people from Gwalior filed a complaint today that the bus they were travelling in from Gurgaon to Panna was overtaken and seized by members of a finance company that apparently had financed the bus. A case is being registered, we’re investigating the matter,” Agra SSP Bablu Kumar told ANI.
The UP government has said in a statement that all passengers and the bus operators are safe, but the bus owner died on Tuesday.
The bus was found at Etawah in Uttar Pradesh.