In a daring incident, four unidentified armed robbers looted cash worth Rs 1.72 lakh from a departmental store in Sahibabad on Saturday night.
According to senior police official, the incident occurred on Saturday late night in Naveen Park which is under Sahibabad police station of Ghaziabad.
The senior police official said that the entire act was recorded in CCTV installed in the area and the shop. “In CCTV footage four robbers who to hide their identity barged into the departmental shop wearing helmet. They, on gun points, dumped over a dozen customers in a store room and robbed the cash box. They fired a shot in air to terrorize the locals before fleeing the spot,” said a senior police official.
The store owner Vikas Goel said that our departmental store is open 24*7. “The robbers entered the shop with their face covered in helmet and guns in their hands. The robbers took away all the available cash, approximately around Rs 1.72 lakh in the cash counter,” said Goel.
“We have registered a complaint. Further investigation is going on and we hope to work out the case at the earliest,” said Shlok Kumar, Superintendent of Police (SP) city.