In a daring robbery, four criminals looted ornaments worth lakhs of rupees from a house after confining its owner and other family members in a room at gun point on late Sunday night. The incident occurred in Sahaspur area. Nobody has been arrested yet in connection with the incident. Police said they are trying their best to arrest the robbers at the earliest. They added that the involvement of Kachchha Baniyan gang in the loot case cannot be ruled out.
Bairagiwala resident Pitambar registered a complaint in Sahaspur police station and a case under section 394 of IPC has been registered in the police station, said Mukesh Tyagi police station in-charge. He said that a team has been formed to investigate the case. Several angles are being looked into to crack the case. Some team members have been deployed in neighbouring districts of Uttar Pradesh to apprehend the criminals.
Police sources said that police conducted vehicle checking drives at many places in the area to nab the miscreants.
They further said that the incident had occurred around 2.30 am at Bairagiwala area under Sahaspur police station in the house of the insurance agent Pitambar. The criminals covering their face with scarf had barged into the house when Pitambar along with his wife and two children were sleeping, confined them in a room and looted the house at gun point.
The criminals had used bamboos to break the locks. They had allegedly beaten the insurance agent and the members of the family when the latter screamed for help. They had threatened them of dire consequences if they repeated.