Unidentified armed robbers wearing police uniform robbed 10 kilogram of gold jewelry from a Mumbai based jeweller in Ghaziabad at gun point.
The incident occurred in the wee hours of Monday morning near Sahibabad railway station when the jeweler Rohit Jain was returning from Meerut along with two of his associates in a car. The driver allegedly stopped the car when criminals dressed as policemen asked them to stop.
However, no sooner the car stopped two of the four criminals over powered the jeweler and his accomplices on gun point and looted the entire stock of gold chains kept in two bags.
The victim Rohit Jain is the owner of Union Jewelers & Gems (Pvt) ltd Mumbai . He was returning from Meerut after showing the samples of gold chains to Meerut based jewelers. He left Meerut at 8 PM on Sunday.
Earlier the jeweler and other two people accompanying him had stopped the car for dinner at a dhaba near railway station. As they moved from the dhaba towards Delhi and reached near railway underpass, the two criminals in police uniform asked the driver to stop the car for checking. After the incident the driver took the car to the Sahibabad police station where the jeweler lodged the complaint.
In the meantime the jewelers association Sarafa association Ghaziabad issued an ultimatum to the police to workout the case within 24 hours otherwise the association would go on strike and would close the market.
“We are in process of investigation and hope would work out the case soon within 24 hours and would not allow them to go on strike” said SP City Akash Tomar.