Noida: Two barge in house, snatch owner’s gold chain

GREATER NOIDA: Two bike-borne assailants snatched a woman’s gold chain after barging inside her house in Sector 36 on Monday.
The complainant Sonu Bhati, who works in a private company in Noida, told police that his 56-year-old mother was dusting in the porch of the single-storey house when two men on a Pulsar motorcycle came on the gate and asked for directions to reach an address.
When she refused, one of them allegedly opened the iron gate and went inside to show a paper that had the complete address written on it, but as soon as he went near her, he pushed her to the ground and snatched the gold chain that she was wearing. “On hearing my mother’s screams, I rushed outside and saw him running outside. My neighbours also tried to catch them, but they sped away,” he said.
Sonu added that the men did not wear a helmet and there was no number plate on their motorbike. “We also tried to check the CCTV footage of the cameras installed at the sector’s entry gate but they were found non-operational. We have somehow managed to get their picture from a camera installed at my neighbour’s house which we have handed over to the police,” he said.
Meanwhile, the other residents of the sector have raised concern over the security. Last week too, a theft had taken place at a temple in the sector.
Kailash Bhati, president of the residents welfare association (RWA) of the sector told TOI that the residents have stopped paying the maintenance fee after the nationwide lockdown was imposed due to which the security guards were removed. “Since then, these incidents are rampant. Even the CCTV cameras were stolen about a month ago. We are requesting the residents to pay the maintenance fee so that we can restore the security,” he said.
Following the complaint, the two unknown robbers have been booked under IPC Section 392 (robbery). “Efforts are on to identify and arrest the accused men,” said senior sub-inspector at Sector Beta 2 police station, R P Singh Shekhawat.