In a daring incident three masked criminals looted Rs 1.60 lakh cash and some ornaments from the house of ex-MP Bhuvneshwar Prasad Mehta on Friday late night, taking his wife on gun point.Ex-MP Mehta was not in his house at the time of incident.
An FIR has been registered in lohsighna PS of Hazaribagh town and now police is in search of culprits.
As per the petition given by Ex-MP to the police last night at about 2 am his wife woke up with the sound of when somone knocked on the door. She thought that her husband has arrived so without making any query and opened the door.
Outside the door there were three masked criminals having pistols in their hand who entered in the house forcibly.
After getting inside the house they forced Mehta’s wife to open the almirah and boxes kept there. Her wife who was on their gunpoint acted as per their instruction and they collected the cash which was about Rs 1.60 lakh, some ornaments and other precious items. After searching the entire house they finally left the house.
Her wife then gave this information to Ex-MP Mehta who was in a jagaran program in a nearby village. He immediately returned to his house and with other family members tried to trace the criminals but failed. Meanwhile police team also arrived but till then criminals had fled away.