Elderly couple, cab driver robbed on way to IGI airport

GURUGRAM: An elderly couple from Dehradun travelling in a taxi was robbed along with their driver by masked men on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway in the early hours of Monday. The couple was headed to Sector 82 and had taken a halt to seek help in tracing an address, when those they sought directions from turned on them. The masked men pulled out guns, took the trio hostage and fled with cash and jewellery in their possession.

The couple told police they had come to Gurgaon to fetch some important documents from their son’s flat in Vatika Next society in Sector 82, on their way to IGI airport from where they were scheduled to catch a 10am flight to UK, which they eventually did after lodging an FIR and taking the document from their son’s flat. A cop accompanied them till the airport.

As per the complaint filed by retired bank employee Suresh Pal Singh (63), resident of GMC Road, Dehradun, he and his wife were on their way to UK via IGI airport at 10am on Monday. They travelled from Dehradun in a cab (Swift Dzire) and were on their way to their son’s flat when they were robbed. “Around 3.40am on Monday, we reached Signature Towers. The driver stopped to seek directions to Sector 82. Suddenly, three masked men on a bike arrived from behind. When our driver asked them for directions, one of them whipped out a gun., held the driver hostage and snatched Rs 7,000 from him. The other two threatened to kill us and snatched my gold ring, my wife’s gold chain and gold ring and fled. We then called police,” wrote Singh in his complaint. A police team reached the spot and accompanied the victims to Sector 40 police station, where Singh filed his complaint, based on which, an FIR was later registered against three unidentified accused under sections 379B (snatching and use of force) of IPC and 25-54-59 of Arms Act.

“We’re trying to identify the accused with the help of CCTV footage from nearby areas,” said inspector Virender Gill, SHO of Sector 40 police station.