NEW DELHI: An 82-year-old retired professor and his wife lived a nightmare on Thursday when four armed men broke into their house in Mayur Vihar pocket 1, hit them with iron rods, and locked them up. The robbers made away with cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees.
Dr Vishnu Dhan Rajni suffered serious head injuries and had to be hospitalised. He said he had gone to bed at 10pm, but woke up around 1am hearing some noise in the drawing room. When he stepped out of his room, he found four men inside the house who had broken the metal gate.
“They broke two roads and were carrying iron rods and daggers. When I came out, they started hitting me with iron rods, pinned me down to the ground, and even tried to gouge my eyes out. My head started to bleed,” Rajni said.
He added that he couldn’t make out what all the robbers took. The robbers ransacked the house and took whatever cash and jewellery they found. After that, they locked Rajni and his wife, who has a prosthetic leg, inside their room.
The couple was stuck inside for two hours. They called out for help through a window facing the road. After repeated calls for help, a car driver heard them and stopped to help them. The person rescued the injured man and also alerted the neighbours.
Rajni was then taken to a nearby hospital where a CT scan was performed. The police were informed too and they recorded the statement of the victims. Subsequently, a case was lodged at Mayur Vihar police station.
DCP (east) Jasmeet Singh confirmed it and said multiple teams have been formed to crack the case.
The couple’s two sons live in the United States. The statement of the woman was also record but since she couldn’t move, she didn’t see the assailants. Rajni told the police that the men were in their early 20s and had not covered their faces.
When police visited the scene of crime, they found that the whole house was ransacked. A team of forensic experts also visited the house. CCTV footage from the area was also scanned to identify the suspects.
Police teams are also speaking to local informers and checking dossiers of criminals active in the area.
Dr Vishnu Dhan Rajni suffered serious head injuries and had to be hospitalised. He said he had gone to bed at 10pm, but woke up around 1am hearing some noise in the drawing room. When he stepped out of his room, he found four men inside the house who had broken the metal gate.
“They broke two roads and were carrying iron rods and daggers. When I came out, they started hitting me with iron rods, pinned me down to the ground, and even tried to gouge my eyes out. My head started to bleed,” Rajni said.
He added that he couldn’t make out what all the robbers took. The robbers ransacked the house and took whatever cash and jewellery they found. After that, they locked Rajni and his wife, who has a prosthetic leg, inside their room.
The couple was stuck inside for two hours. They called out for help through a window facing the road. After repeated calls for help, a car driver heard them and stopped to help them. The person rescued the injured man and also alerted the neighbours.
Rajni was then taken to a nearby hospital where a CT scan was performed. The police were informed too and they recorded the statement of the victims. Subsequently, a case was lodged at Mayur Vihar police station.
DCP (east) Jasmeet Singh confirmed it and said multiple teams have been formed to crack the case.
The couple’s two sons live in the United States. The statement of the woman was also record but since she couldn’t move, she didn’t see the assailants. Rajni told the police that the men were in their early 20s and had not covered their faces.
When police visited the scene of crime, they found that the whole house was ransacked. A team of forensic experts also visited the house. CCTV footage from the area was also scanned to identify the suspects.
Police teams are also speaking to local informers and checking dossiers of criminals active in the area.
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