Mobile shop looted in Chheharta

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, March 31

Three bike-borne persons loot a mobile showroom owner at gunpoint and decamped with expensive mobile phones last evening. The robbers struck at Har Electronics on Subash Road Chheharta around 9 pm. The robbers had their faces covered and committed the crime in one minute.

Deepak, son of shop owner, said he was locking the shop and his father Har Kishan was holding a bag containing 20 expensive mobile phones.

Meanwhile, three miscreants came on a motorcycle. Two on them alighted from the bike and one person put a gun on Har Kishan’s belly. Other one started snatching bag from him. When Har Kishan denied giving bag the robber starter loading the gun to shot. Deepak shouted and asked his father to leave the bag.

The robbers fled with mobile phone bag. Deepak claimed that they run toward Azad Nagar road. On getting information, a team of the Chheharta police station reached the spot. Ravinder Singh, Additional SHO, Chheharta police station, said CCTV cameras installed at shop were defunct. Police teams are scrutinising footage from CCTV cameras installed at nearby establishments. The police have registered a case and started investigation.