Around a dozen unidentified armed robbers looted cash, jewellery and other valuables worth over Rs3 lakh from the house of a company executive in Bhikkanpur area of Ghaziabad on Thursday midnight.
The robbers shot at the mother-son duo of of the family when they posed a resistance, both are currently recuperating in a nearby hospital.
Police said that a dozen dacoits armed with pistols, iron rods and knives barged into the house of Sandeep (35), a company executive working with Shriram pistons limited. The dacoits, after scaling the boundary wall, overpowered the family members who were sleeping in the courtyard. When Sandeep and his mother Rajbala resisted, they opened fire at them.
The dacoits forced the family to surrender all the valuables by threatening to kill Sandeep’s only son. However, when they were committing the robbery, locals heard the fire shots and came out of their residences and started throwing stones at the robbers. The dacoits opened fire and fled the spot brandishing pistols and firing in the air.
After the dacoits left the crime scene, the locals called for help and police were informed.