Unidentified miscreants struck terror in Bagpat when they broke entered into the shop cum house of a jeweler in Bagpat and looted cash and ornaments worth over rupees one crore. The sensational dacoity took place in the wee hours of Monday. The injured were shifted to hospital.
Sources said that the miscreants took booty more than what has been reported by the victim. Senior police officers who rushed to the spot claimed to be making efforts to trace out the accused. An alert has been also sounded to keep a close vigil in the localities housing the jewelers and their shops as the miscreants would now target the jeweler community or those black money holders who had invested a huge amount in purchasing gold after demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes.
Reports said that over half a dozen miscreants barged inside the house of Amit Verma, a native of Ameernagar Sarai locality of Sighawali area in Bagpat. Verma was running a jewellery show-room from the house and was living with his family in the back portion of the same building. The miscreants first attacked the family members and looted the license revolver of Amit Verma. They later swept cash and ornaments from the house as well as from the shop before locking everyone in the house and fleeing with the booty.
Amit Verma, later raised an alarm after which his neighbour came to his rescue and open the door. They shifted the injured family members to nearby hospital and informed the incident to the local police. The cops rushed with sniffer dogs and members of finger printing team and collected samples. They were reportedly also viewing the CCTv recording to get some clue about the robbers so a trap could be laid. However, the cops failed to get any success so far.
Meanwhile in a road mishap reported from Hardoi, 4 pilgrims were killed and
7 others injured when their vehicle overturned in Sadarpur area on Monday morning. The pilgrims were on their way to Rajghat for a holy dip in Ganga on occasion of `Ganga Snan’, when their tractor-trolley met with the accident in Bilgram area. Those killed in the mishap have been identified as Rohit
(10), Haripal (40), Malti (50) and Sarvesh (30). The injured have been admitted to the district hospital by the cops. All the victims belonged to Sandana Barauli village under Beniganj police station area of Hardoi.