An employee of a Karol Bagh-based jewellery shop was allegedly robbed of silver and diamond worth Rs.1.25 crore by unidentified men in Outer Delhi’s Alipur on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. An alert police control room staff ensured that the robbed valuables were recovered within hours. The accused, however, managed to give the policemen a slip.
According to police, the incident took place when the employee, Hemant Jain, was returning from Punjab and was on National Highway-1. “Soon after his vehicle, which was loaded with 12 kg silver and diamond, reached near Khampur Village in Alipur, a Sonata car overtook him. The victim told the police that two persons were present inside the car and that they parked their vehicle in front of his car. He was driving at a high speed, so when he suddenly applied brakes, his car crashed into the robbers’,” said a police official.
At this, two persons from the car came out, held the victim at gun-point and asked him to get down from the car. The complainant was then thrashed by the accused who took the bags filled with the valuables as well as the victim’s mobile phone. They also drove away his car along with theirs.
The victim somehow managed to call the police control room. A case of robbery was registered and investigations taken up.
“Soon after the incident, a description of the alleged robbers and the vehicle involved in the incident was flashed to all border check posts and all mobile patrolling police control room vehicles. Due to this checking, the robbers could not cross the city.
On Sunday afternoon, the staff of one of the PCR vans stationed at Narela and manned by Head Constable Randheer Singh and Constable Rajender spotted the car behind Raja Harish Chander Hospital and started chasing it. Finding the PCR van following them, the robbers fled after abandoning the car near Sector-5 Narela Chowk,” said a senior police officer.
The entire looted diamond and silver worth about Rs.1.25 crore was recovered from the car.
