The driver of a firm associatedwith liquor baron late Ponty Chadha on Monday escaped with an amount to the tune of Rs. 10 lakh from Gurdaspur district, police said. On the complaint of Jaspreet Singh Seth, Vice President of 'AB food grains', associated with Chadha, a case was registered against Amritsar resident Rajesh Kumar for escaping with the amount, SHO Sri Hargobindpur Gurbhinder Singh said.

According to the complaint, the incident took place when Seth was on way to deposit Rs. 10 lakh in a bank at Sri Hargobindpur town.

Seth got down from the car for some work leaving the bag containing the amount inside the vehicle, police said adding, making use of the situation Rajesh escaped with the bag.

Later the car was found abandoned near Sekhri gas agency in the industrial town, police said.

Teams have been constituted to arrest the absconding driver, SHO City police station Lakhwinder Singh said.