Robbery: cops grope in dark

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, November 7

Even after elapsing of 24 hours, the Cantonment police were still groping in the dark in the robbery incident in which armed looters decamped with gold jewellery and cash worth Rs 8 lakh after making a trader’s family hostage in the Guru Arjan Dev Nagar area on Friday. The miscreants gained entry into the house by posing as sewer cleaners.

Ranjit Singh, SHO, Cantonment police station, told that though the perpetrators took away the digital video recorder from the victim’s home, they have CCTV footage from the area which would help the police in identifying the suspects.

He said a case under Sections 454, 380, 342 and 34 of the IPC and 25, 27, 54 and 59A of the Arms Act against unknown persons.

The victim, Devinder Singh Bedi, who is a textile trader, was at his house along with his wife, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren. One of their grandchildren, Janu, was injured as he intervened when the accused attacked Bedi.

Bedi said, “Around 4 pm, the accused knocked at the entrance gate. They opened a manhole outside my house. When I went out, the miscreants demanded a polythene bag to dump the silt removed from the manhole. When I went inside, they followed me.”