Robbers hold cotton trader kin hostage

Pune | Friday | 18th January, 2019

Summary:

They robbed cash and valuables worth Rs 5.70 lakh.The intruders moved into the ground-plus-one bungalow around 9.30am. PUNE: Four armed intruders on Wednesday morning held Mumbai-based cotton trader Hanskumar Khimji (79), his sister-in-law Hema Chheda (63) and domestic helps hostage at gunpoint for over three hours in his bungalow in an isolated bylane off Apte Road in the Deccan Gymkhana area. Chheda displayed alacrity to immediately bolt the door from the inside and raise an alarm. They pushed Khimji and Chheda into one of the rooms on the upper floor of the bungalow.At one point around 1.30pm, all three criminals had moved out of the upper room. He got down from the car and fled..