Family held hostage, robbed in S. Delhi
A family was held hostage at their Safdarjung Enclave residence on Monday afternoon by three unidentified assailants who decamped with cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees. The incident took place at B7/112B, Safdar-jung Enclave extension at 1.45 pm on Monday.
Three unidentified men barged into the house and held the family members, including Tarun Khandel-wal, a jeweller, hostage for more than an hour before fleeing. Khandelwal’s wife Rashi, sister Urvashi and a domestic help were present in the house when the assailants knocked the gate.
“When I went up to check, the assailants told me that my wife had asked them to plug leakage of a gas cylinder. I called out for Rashi to confirm but, they barged in by then and closed the main door. They held a knife at my throat and asked Urvashi and Rashi to keep quiet. One assailant took a rope and tied Urvashi and Rashi and pushed them in a room. I was also tied up and locked in bathroom,” said Khandelwal, who owns a showroom in Kotla Mubarakpur.
The assailants told the domestic help to accompany them and ransacked the house for more than 60 minutes.
“They took away cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees. The exact estimate can be made only after other family members, who are in Rajasthan to attend the last rites of a relative, return,” a senior police official said. “We are questioning some people and a breakthrough is expected soon,” the official said.
Meanwhile, in another incident, a garment trader was shot at in Patel Nagar area of west Delhi by unidentified bikers who took away a bag containing `three lakhs on Sunday evening.
The victim Mukesh Kumar, a resident of Ramesh Nagar, was going home in an Innova car with his friends Sunny Kalra and Virender Dutt, when nine assailants riding on three motorbikes intercepted them near Metro pillar no 902 in Patel Nagar on Sunday evening. Mukesh runs a garment store on Tank Road in Patel Nagar.
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