NOIDA: A 40-year-old guard was found dead with three bullet injuries in an alleged robbery attempt at a garment factory in Noida's Sector 63 on Sunday evening.
The guard has been identified as
Ashutosh Kumar, who lived in a rented house in Wajidpur.
Police said Ashutosh worked at the Kimo Clothing factory in Sector 63. Since it was a Sunday, the factory was closed and only Ashutosh was on duty.
According to the police, another guard, CB Singh, came to the factory for his night duty and found the lock at the main door broken. Singh reportedly found the factory premises ransacked.
Singh said he found Ashutosh lying on the floor in a pool of blood. He informed the police and rushed Ashutosh to a nearby private hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead.
The factory owner, Rajeev Sharma, lives in
Greater Kailash in Delhi. He said the assailants had decamped with the goods stocked in the factory. It is believed that the unarmed guard was killed for resisting the alleged robbery attempt.
Arun Kumar Singh, SP (city) Noida, and other officers reached the factory after hearing that a guard had been shot there. The police said a case of robbery and murder had been registered against unknown persons at Phase III police station.
Sources said the police were scanning CCTV footage from adjacent buildings to identify the assailants. Ashutosh's body was sent for a post-mortem and the reports are awaited.
(Representative image)
