In broad day, light three miscreants robbed an elderly woman at knife point and locking her inside at Idgah Hills on Wednesday; robbers escaped with Rs 11500 cash leaving jewellery worth lakhs of rupees raising suspicion over incident, said Shahjehanabad police.
In the five minute robbery heist by masked robbers victim Lavina Talvani miscreants held her captive at knife point at escaped with only Rs 11500 cash while almirah which was targeted was having other expensive valuables.
After the robbers left house woman broke the bathroom door to rescue herself . After this, the family including the police were told about the incident.
Shahjahanabad police have started investigation. During the robbery miscreants had also tied a dupatta (scarf) over woman's face.
Shahjehanabad police SHO Zaheer Khan said that Sanjay Tanwani, who lives in PNB Colony, has a flour making factory near the Union Carbide factory and had gone for work while his wife Lavina was alone at home with mother of her husband.
At around seven in the evening, Laveena was sitting in the bedroom talking to her and found that door was open and went to close door during three masked miscreants hiding in the house threatened her at knife point and asked about the money. She refused of having cash at home.
The accused searched house and escaped with cash. Police have started searching for miscreants and CCTV footages are investigated.