Elderly couple loses ₹45K, car to robbers in Ludhiana

The four robbers entered their house by scaling the walls and robbed their valuables at knifepoint; took the digital video recorder of the CCTV camera inside the house before fleeing

Four miscreants robbed an elderly couple of ₹45,000, important documents, house keys and their car after threatening them at knife point at their home in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, Block-F on Friday morning.

The robbers held the couple at knifepoint and stuffed pieces of cloth in their mouths so they could not raise the alarm. (Representative image)

The victim Paramjit Singh, 76, is elected president of Kabir Co-operative house building self-supporting society.

He said that at around 5am on Friday, the four unidentified accused barged into the house after scaling the boundary wall. They held him and his wife at knifepoint and stuffed pieces of cloth in their mouths so they could not raise the alarm. They remained in the house for 30 minutes before decamping with the valuables.

They also took the digital video recorder of the CCTV camera inside the house before fleeing. Paramjit said the robbers were conversing in Punjabi.

Inspector Surinder Chopra, station house officer of Dugri police station, said a case under Section 380 (theft in dwelling house, etc) of Indian Penal Code has been registered against the accused and police are scanning footage from CCTV cameras installed in the area.