Robbers struck at the house of an industrialist in a posh locality of neighbouring Ghaziabad and decamped with cash and jewellery amounting to more than Rs 20 lakhs.
According to the Ghaziabad police, the robbers, armed with weapons, barged into the house and took the family of the industrialist Mukesh Sharma, a resident of Rajender Nagar in Sahibabad area of Ghaziabad, hostage late on Friday evening. The police said the robbers stayed in the house for nearly four hours.
At the time of the incident, the house owner Mr Sharma was in Haridwar.
The police said the robbers escaped with Rs 3 lakhs in cash and gold and diamond jewellery worth Rs 17 lakhs.
The robbers spent over four hours at Sharma’s place, enjoying drinks and edibles and patiently looting the house of Rs 3 lakhs in cash and gold and diamond ornaments worth Rs 17 lakhs, said police sources, adding that the neighbours did not react, mistaking the robbers for guests.
The police has meanwhile claimed that the case would be solved soon. Police officials have not ruled out the possibility of an insider tipping off the robbers.
A case has been registered and further investigations are on in the case.
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Two get life for killing old woman
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
June 12: Four years after they had allegedly killed an elderly lady and looted more than Rs 22 lakhs from her residence, a city court has sentenced two persons, including the domestic help, to life imprisonment.
The convicts had inflicted 35 stab wounds on the victim.
In a recent order, additional sessions judge S.K. Gautam convicted Mukesh Kumar Yadav and his accomplice Vijay Kumar. describing the act as ghastly.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on each of the two convicts.
The court observed that when the elderly woman Charanjeet Kaur, wife of a businessman Gurcharan Singh, who lived at 12 Raj Niwas house in north Delhi, was killed she was alone and defenceless and that the crime had been planned in cold blood.
The court further noted that the “pious” relationship between the servant and the employer was also sullied by their act.
The prosecution had claimed that Mukesh and Vijay had hatched the conspiracy and stabbed the woman to death after robbing Rs 22.40 lakhs in cash from the house on October 3, 2006.
The convicts, including the domestic help had fled. Subsequently, the police had arrested the duo and on their instance, recovered Rs 22.14 lakhs in cash, besides two knives that were allegedly used in the crime by the convicts.