NOIDA: The son of a joint secretary in the University Grants Commission (UGC) was held at gunpoint in his own car, driven around the city for around four hours and robbed of his phone and laptop by three men on the intervening night of September 19-20.
According to Surender Singh, his son Anuj was attacked around 12.30 am on Friday when he was returning home in his Ford Figo after meeting a friend in Sector 76. He had stopped his car opposite the Sector 52 metro station to light a cigarette when the three men approached him. “Finding him alone in the car, the three accused took him at gunpoint. They hit him in the nape with the butt of a gun, pushed him to the back seat and thrashed him all along. One of them took to the wheel and started driving his car rashly,” he said.
Singh has said in the complaint that the person driving the car had rammed it into a divider twice in a hurry.
“Our son was beaten up very badly. He has marks all over his face, neck and other parts of the body. During the journey, they stopped the car at an ATM kiosk and tried to withdraw money. But the transaction failed,” Singh said.
When the car reached the Reliance petrol pump in Ghukna in Ghaziabad, 17km from where Anuj was picked up, the Figo got overheated and broke down. The accused got off the car and tried to look for someone, leaving Anuj alone.
Anuj managed to get off his Figo and run to a neighbourhood colony after locking the car.
“But the three broke the glass windows and took away his mobile phone, laptop and other valuables. He was beaten up mercilessly and his shirt torn,” Singh said. Anuj, who works with a media house, said he offered Rs 1,000 to an auto-rickshaw driver to drop him home, but he did not agree. However, another auto driver took him home for Rs 500.
Dharmendra Sharma, the SHO of Sector 49 police station, said they were working on the case and an FIR had been lodged under IPC sections 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder.), 392 (robbery) and 427 (mischief causing damage). Anuj's family expressed concern over rising street crime in the city. “The monetary loss is not too much, but our son’s life was at stake. Living in Noida is becoming scary,” the joint secretary said.
In Greater Noida, a senior official with a private college was allegedly robbed of Rs 39,000 by four men who offered him a lift and drove around the city for 45 minutes. Dharmendra Pratap Singh was waiting for an auto to go home when he was offered the lift.
According to Surender Singh, his son Anuj was attacked around 12.30 am on Friday when he was returning home in his Ford Figo after meeting a friend in Sector 76. He had stopped his car opposite the Sector 52 metro station to light a cigarette when the three men approached him. “Finding him alone in the car, the three accused took him at gunpoint. They hit him in the nape with the butt of a gun, pushed him to the back seat and thrashed him all along. One of them took to the wheel and started driving his car rashly,” he said.
Singh has said in the complaint that the person driving the car had rammed it into a divider twice in a hurry.
“Our son was beaten up very badly. He has marks all over his face, neck and other parts of the body. During the journey, they stopped the car at an ATM kiosk and tried to withdraw money. But the transaction failed,” Singh said.
When the car reached the Reliance petrol pump in Ghukna in Ghaziabad, 17km from where Anuj was picked up, the Figo got overheated and broke down. The accused got off the car and tried to look for someone, leaving Anuj alone.
Anuj managed to get off his Figo and run to a neighbourhood colony after locking the car.
“But the three broke the glass windows and took away his mobile phone, laptop and other valuables. He was beaten up mercilessly and his shirt torn,” Singh said. Anuj, who works with a media house, said he offered Rs 1,000 to an auto-rickshaw driver to drop him home, but he did not agree. However, another auto driver took him home for Rs 500.
Dharmendra Sharma, the SHO of Sector 49 police station, said they were working on the case and an FIR had been lodged under IPC sections 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder.), 392 (robbery) and 427 (mischief causing damage). Anuj's family expressed concern over rising street crime in the city. “The monetary loss is not too much, but our son’s life was at stake. Living in Noida is becoming scary,” the joint secretary said.
In Greater Noida, a senior official with a private college was allegedly robbed of Rs 39,000 by four men who offered him a lift and drove around the city for 45 minutes. Dharmendra Pratap Singh was waiting for an auto to go home when he was offered the lift.
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