Armed robbers strike at retired engineer’s house, hold family hostage

  • | Wednesday | 12th September, 2018

“I was alone when three men, who seemed to be in their early thirties, barged inside our house around 11 am. Beena Goel, Sriprakash’s wife, said, “Three men followed my husband as he was coming upstairs and forcefully entered our house. They then locked me inside one of the rooms as the men went about ransacking the house. Meerut: In a daring daylight robbery, a gang of five unidentified, armed men burgled a two-storey house as they held the victims’ hostage at gunpoint in the city’s Mohanpuri locality on Wednesday. They locked all of us inside a bathroom before burgling the house.

Meerut: In a daring daylight robbery, a gang of five unidentified, armed men burgled a two-storey house as they held the victims’ hostage at gunpoint in the city’s Mohanpuri locality on Wednesday. The house is situated less than 50 metres away from the circle office (CO), Civil Lines area.The assailants first entered the house’s ground floor where Rakesh Gupta, a clerk at the district magistrate’s office, and his family live as tenants. “I was alone when three men, who seemed to be in their early thirties, barged inside our house around 11 am. They immediately held me at gunpoint as two others also joined. They then locked me inside one of the rooms as the men went about ransacking the house. The assailants took away Rs 25,000 in cash, besides jewellery and other valuables,” said Suman (who goes by her first name), Gupta’s wife.According to police, after robbing the tenants, the robbers made their way to the building’s first floor where owner Sriprakash Goel, retired junior engineer of the irrigation department, lives with his wife and daughter-in-law. Beena Goel, Sriprakash’s wife, said, “Three men followed my husband as he was coming upstairs and forcefully entered our house. They locked all of us inside a bathroom before burgling the house. They also threatened us to keep quiet.”Superintendent of police (SP), city, Ranvijay Singh, said, “We are scanning CCTV footages of the site. Our teams are working on the case and the assailants will be arrested soon. An FIR under section 395 (dacoity) of the IPC has been registered against unidentified miscreants.”

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