GREATER NOIDA: A businessman and his family were held hostage at gunpoint for nearly two and half hours on Monday night in Dankaur and robbed of cash, jewellery and electronic items.The victim has been identified as 45-year-old Satpal Singh, who lives with his wife and son. He owns a factory of electronic spare parts in the industrial area of Greater Noida Singh told police that around 8.30pm, two men in their late twenties came to his house and asked for water. When he returned with a bottle of water and tried to hand it over to them, the accused pushed him inside his house.“The accused allegedly flashed a gun and pushed me inside the house. Four other men also barged in and locked the front door of the house. Later, one of them took me at gunpoint and asked my wife and son to be in one room while others searched the house till 11pm. They fled with at least Rs 50,000 cash, jewellery worth Rs 10 lakh and an LED TV,” Singh said in his complaint.Singh was also beaten up by the robbers for trying to resist the robbery , said Jeetender, Singh’s relative. “When the two men flashed pistols at him, Satpal held their hands and pointed the gun towards the sky. This made them furious and they thrashed Satpal. Later they ate sweets and bananas that were kept in the fridge,” said Jeetender.Rajpal Singh Tomar, SHO, Dankaur police station said, “The victim has reported that there was a lot of noise due to the wedding celebration when the assailants entered his house. We have registered an FIR against six unidentified robbers under Section 394 (voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery) of the IPC,” said the SHO.

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