A dacoity reported in the house of one Manohar lal Sati, an army man, at Selaqui under Sahaspur police station area on Friday morning has exposed police claimed about security preparedness being beefed up ahead of lok Sabha election in Dehradun.
Six armed criminals entered Sati’s home, confined two persons including a woman in a room after assaulting them and decamped with jewellery and cash worth lakhs of rupees.An FIR against six unidentified persons under Section 397 of IPC was registered in Sahaspur police station, said Vikasnagar Circle Officer Swapn Kishor Singh on Friday. Apart from intensifying police patrolling in the area, three police teams including special operation group and local police team have been formed to solve this case, he added.
Singh said that police reached the site around 3 am after control room was informed about the dacoity in a house at an isolated location under Selaqui police post area in Sahaspur around 2.45 am. The criminals had managed to escape from the scene by the time the police reached the site.
Four persons including Sita Devi, Neetu, Rekha and a tenant Deva were in this home and were awakened at around 2 am after hearing some noise. Deva and Neetu came out of the house to check but were assaulted by the intruders and later lodged them in a room in the house. Two other family members Sita Devi and Rekha
somehow managed to reach the terrace, locked the door leading to it and started shouting for help. Their shouts for help elicited no response as the house was located in an isolated area. The criminals decamped with jewellery and cash worth lakhs of rupees before police reached the spot and started searching for the culprits. Deva and Neetu who were injured in this incident were admitted in the Doon Hospital and their condition is said to be out of danger.