Three miscreants looted valuables worth `6 lakh from the house of a retired Ayurvedic doctor RC Neekhra Gupta in Ram Nagar Colony, Datia, in daylight on Sunday. The assailants are still at large.
Police said that at around 1.45 pm three miscreants reached the house and enquired about the presence of doctor as though they were patients and asked when he would be available.
However, before she could understand anything, the miscreants pushed her inside the house and forcibly entered.
Doctor’s daughter Nicky told police that soon after entering the house, the offenders bolted the main door from inside and started looting the members present inside by brandishing knives and guns.
First, they snatched gold chains from the necks of Nicky’s husband and her mother.
later, they took out gold and other valuables from the steel almirah and fled away. They remained almost 45 minutes in the house and fled away smoothly by bolting the family members inside the house.
The good taken away by the miscreants included three gold chains, six finger rings, six gold bangles, mangalsutra, earrings, 500 gram silver ornaments, `2.50 lakh cash and few mobile phones worth `75,000. They even took clothes from the house.
The incident has created panic in the whole town as the police are not taking the crimes seriously.
This is the third incident in the town in past three months. Earlier, in a similar incident the house of a tehsildar Ashok Kumar was targeted in February this year.