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Dacoits? third strike in a week
HALF-A-DOZEN MASKED dacoits raided a widow, Kamlesh Shukla?s house and decamped with booty worth several lakh after injuring four persons at Siddharth Nagar under Kalyanpur police area, here on Tuesday night.
Escape with cash and jewellery worth several lakh
HALF-A-DOZEN MASKED dacoits raided a widow, Kamlesh Shukla’s house and decamped with booty worth several lakh after injuring four persons at Siddharth Nagar under Kalyanpur police area, here on Tuesday night.
This is the third incident of dacoity in the last one week. On September 1, dacoits had raided a lawyer’s house in Shuklaganj and two days back, a leather trader had reported a case of dacoity.
According to Kamlesh, an employee of Lal Imli, six persons wearing masks and carrying firearms entered her house by jumping over the fence. Kamlesh added that she was sleeping in the drawing room along with a relative, Rajesh Shukla.
Being a heart patient, Kamlesh suffocates in closed rooms. So, she had left the door leading to the room open.
The miscreants held Kamlesh and her relative at gunpoint and asked for the keys to the safe. They started beating her up when she refused to comply with their order.
Hearing her shrieks, other family members rushed to the drawing room. The miscreants thrashed all before confining them to the kitchen. They then ransacked the entire house and decamped with jewellery worth more than two lakh and Rs 16,000 in cash.
Later, the neighbours came to the rescue of the victims when they raised an alarm. A neighbour Sunit Rao informed that though he called up the police around 3 am, the cops took a couple of hours to reach the spot.
The fellow citizens took the injured to a nearby private nursing home. The police initiated preliminary investigation and collected a kit for forensic research. Later, a dog squad was also pressed into service.
The cops are suspecting it to be an insider’s job since Jitendra, son of Kamlesh said that the miscreants demanded his coloured mobile set that he did not have when the crime took place.
The Kalyanpur station officer said that probe was on and the culprits would be nabbed soon.
