new delhi a week after delhis top cop zealously listed new and innovative measures to curb crime in the capital armed biker gangs lying low for a long time targeted at least four places in the city on friday making a mockery of the announcement bikers first struck around 1145am in south delhi where a 29yearold employee of a jewellery showroom was shot at by four unidentified assailants three of whom came on a bike they fled after looting rs 12 lakh from him the second robbery was reported around 330pm in west delhi where two unidentified men again on a bike allegedly waylaid a factory owner and snatched rs 185 lakh from him after he emerged from a bank in vikaspuri armed bikers also shot at a person injuring him critically in northeast delhi late friday night earlier in the day around 10am the guard of a kotak mahindra bank atm outlet in dwarka sector 7 was shot at by two armed men who tried to loot the cash van of the bank please see page 7while cops claim to be beefing up security during the night criminals have outdone them by striking during the day the south delhi robbery was reported in broad daylight when the victim identified as sitaram was going to a union bank branch with an unarmed security guard to deposit rs 12 lakh cash of blues jewellery company he was allegedly accosted by four men three on a motorbike and one on foot barely 50 metres from the bank when sitaram was asked to hand over the bag he resisted it was then he was shot at all four assailants managed to flee with the bag sitaram was rushed to aiims trauma centre where he was operated upon the security guard with sitaram identified as sudhir 31 reportedly fled the spot before the shot was fired he was later questioned by the police manager of the jewellery showroom pradeep kapoor said sitaram is a trusted employee and has been working at the showroom for about a decade he would go deposit cash from the showroom in the same bank every day around the same time we dont suspect him the victim stays with his wife and two children in kotla mubarakpur meanwhile the police have lodged a case at the kotla mubarakpur police stationsatyendra sharma an employee of a nearby shop said i heard a loud sound and at first thought it was a tyre burst then i heard a man screaming that he had been shot at the assailants had already escaped by thenshobha dheer a resident of the area said i was inside the house when i heard a loud sound like a firecracker and rushed to my window a man was screaming in agony and there was no one in sight residents claimed that with the mushrooming of commercial business in the area over the past few years and with a number of banks opening in the