PESHAWAR, Jan 30: The city police on Monday recovered Rs800,000 from robbers who had stolen it from the staff of the Anti-Tuberculosis Mission in Afghanistan from the locality of University Town three days ago, said a senior police official, and added that a robber and three employees of the NGO were arrested in the case. They recovered another Rs100,000 from two of the NGO staff.

Police are also on the lookout for the other three robbers, said Senior Superintendent of Police (operation) Saeed Khan Wazir during a press conference at the Gulbahar police station here on Monday.

He said that four robbers stopped the car of the international NGO office on Jamaluddin Afghani Road in University Town on Friday and snatched the staff’s salaries at gun point and escaped.

The mission’s accountant, Ms Saima, private security guard Mohammad Amin and driver Abdul Aziz were asked to bring the staff’s salaries from a bank. The three cashed Rs900,000 from the bank and were returning to their office when the four armed robbers stopped their car and snatched the money, Mr Wazir said.

The city police investigated the case and arrested the security guard for having a criminal background, said the official.

During interrogation, he revealed that he had conspired along with four other people namely Fakhr-i-Alam, Aimal, Ayaz and Khalil, and gave them the exact date, time and location when the salaries would be cashed. Later, police arrested Aimal from the locality of Regi Lilma and recovered Rs800,000 from him, the SSP said.

The accused insisted that they had snatched only Rs800,000 from the NGO staff. The police then interrogated the mission’s accountant and driver who confessed that when the robbers were stealing the money they left Rs100,000 behind by mistake. So, later, both of them distributed the amount equally among themselves, said the SSP.

The police have also recovered this amount from the two NGO employees and have registered a case against them, he added.