Family held hostage, robbed of gold, cash

  • | Thursday | 6th December, 2018

LUDHIANA: Eight men allegedly broke into a house in Jandiali around 1.15am on Wednesday, held the family inside hostage , and robbed it of cash and gold, said police here. They added that preliminary investigation suggested that they reached the house at around 1.15am and left by 1.30am. A neighbour who came to the rescue of the victims was also attacked and injured.The attackers used branches of trees as weapons. Police said the accused, who had masked their faces, had come to the crime spot on foot. He alleged that they took away her earrings after slapping her.Rajdeep’s husband is abroad and she was sleeping alone at the time of the robbery.According to the FIR, the miscreants then took away bags containing cash and other valuables of the family from the almirahs in the house.

LUDHIANA: Eight men allegedly broke into a house in Jandiali around 1.15am on Wednesday, held the family inside hostage , and robbed it of cash and gold, said police here. A neighbour who came to the rescue of the victims was also attacked and injured.The attackers used branches of trees as weapons. Police are yet to identify the accused, but they are claiming that they have footage of CCTV cameras installed near the house and would be able track the robbers down with its help.The entire robbery — which involved the attackers scaling the boundary wall of the house, locking the owner up, injuring his wife, daughter-in-law and mother, ransacking the house and collecting the valuables, and then neutralising the neighbour — took just about 15 minutes, said police.Gurmail Singh (55), who is landowner in Jandiali, alleged that the robbers entered the house by scaling the boundary wall around 1.15am. They first entered his daughter-in-law Rajdeep Kaur’s room and asked her to remain silent. He alleged that they took away her earrings after slapping her.Rajdeep’s husband is abroad and she was sleeping alone at the time of the robbery.According to the FIR, the miscreants then took away bags containing cash and other valuables of the family from the almirahs in the house. The accused then proceeded towards Gurmail’s room. While they locked him inside, they took his wife, Amarjeet Kaur, out and punched her in the nose, and took her gold earrings.Gurmail alleged that the miscreants also hit his mother, Gurdev Kaur. He added that his neighbour Balbir Singh, who had come to their rescue, was also manhandled by the accused persons and he suffered an injury in the melee.The accused then ran away from the house. A case of robbery has been registered at Jamalpur police station. Sahnewal assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Harjinder Singh Gill said the house did not have a CCTV camera, but they had got footage of a CCTV in the area and were scanning it.ACP confirmed that two persons had suffered injuries in the incident.Police said the value of the robbed goods was yet to be calculated as the family was still in shock. Police said the accused, who had masked their faces, had come to the crime spot on foot. They added that preliminary investigation suggested that they reached the house at around 1.15am and left by 1.30am.

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