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Punjab Civil Service officer’s car snatched at gunpoint in Mohali
Rajesh Tripathi, additional secretary, information technology, was driving back home when three men in a car intercepted him, pointed a pistol and forced him to get down before fleeing in his Maruti Ertiga
The car of a Punjab Civil Service (PCS) officer was snatched at gunpoint on the road dividing Sectors 86 and 87 in Mohali on Wednesday night around 10.45pm.
Rajesh Tripathi, the additional secretary of information technology, was returning to his official residence at Purab Premium Apartments in Sector 88 from Phase 11 in Mohali when the incident took place.
Investigating officer Amrik Singh said Tripathi was driving back alone in his Maruti Ertiga.
“On reaching the dividing road in Sectors 86 and 87, four men in a Maruti Swift car waylaid him. Three men stepped out of the car and pointed a pistol at him. They asked him to get down from the car and drove away in it. Tripathi managed to note down the number of the Swift car in which the assailants came,” said the cop. “We have already sent our police parties to Moga and Faridkot districts,” he added.
The investigating officer said a resident, Gagandeep Singh, outside whose house the incident took place took Tripathi to the police station. “We are checking the closed circuit television camera (CCTV) footage and are hopeful of arresting them soon,” Amrik Singh said.
A case was registered against unidentified persons at Sohana police station.
On November 28, passersby caught an armed carjacker, who was trying to flee with a car snatched on gunpoint on Kharar-Landran road. Two of his accomplices, however, managed to flee.
