Rehabilitated Muzaffarnagar riots victims robbed by group of armed men

A group of 15 armed men allegedly looted cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees from houses of rehabilitated Muzaffarnagar riots victims at Hamza colony in Kandhla town of Shamli district, police said on Monday.

A group of 15 armed men allegedly looted cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees from houses of rehabilitated Muzaffarnagar riots victims at Hamza colony in Kandhla town of Shamli district, police said on Monday.

(Representative image) A group of 15 armed men allegedly robbed from the houses of rehabilitated Muzaffarnagar riots victims. (Sushil Kumar/HT File Photo)

The miscreants looted cash and ornaments from the families of Azad, Mustakim, Nasim, Sameydin, Vahiduddin, Sukka, and Yamin on Sunday night, police said.

On receiving information, police rushed to the spot and started probe in the matter.

Several families, who displaced from Bahawdi, Lank and Lisarh during Muzaffarnagar riots in 2013, were rehabilitated in Kandhla town.