A septuagenarian couple was allegedly robbed and assaulted by four unidentified masked men who barged into their house in outer Delhi’s Mianwali in the small hours of Wednesday.
The police said the incident took place between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. Chaman Lal Sahni (75) and his wife Krishna Sahni (72), who run a poultry business and live in a two-storey building with their children, were asleep on the ground floor at the time of the robbery.
The couple’s two sons, who live with their families on the first and second floors, slept through the home invasion.
The couple told the police that they woke up when they sensed someone else’s presence in the room. Assuming it was a family member, they called out but did not get any response. Sensing that something was wrong, they tried to raise an alarm but were overpowered by the accused. The robbers threatened to kill them unless they remained quiet.
“The couple said the robbers were armed. They took the jewellery Krishna was wearing and the cash kept in the room. The family said the accused took nearly ₹2.5 lakh and gold worth ₹15 lakh,” said a police officer.
Initial probe has revealed that the men gained access to the elderly couple’s room by breaking a window grill. After the robber fled, Chaman and Krishna raised an alarm and informed the police. The police control room received a call regarding the robbery at 3.45 a.m.
DCP (Outer) Seju P. Kuruvilla said a case of robbery has been registered and efforts are on to identify the miscreants.
