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Miscreants slit woman?s throat
A MIDDLE-AGED woman was attacked by miscreants in a robbery bid. They escaped after robbing her house situated barely at a distance of 100 metres from Shastri Nagar police post under the Kakadev police station on Thursday. The incident took place around 12.30 pm when five miscreants knocked on the door of the house asking the lady, identified as Jasveer Kaur (50), about her son Gurmeet Singh Sonu, who owns a shop named Meet Batteries situated at Kabadi Market in Fazalganj.
A MIDDLE-AGED woman was attacked by miscreants in a robbery bid. They escaped after robbing her house situated barely at a distance of 100 metres from Shastri Nagar police post under the Kakadev police station on Thursday.
The incident took place around 12.30 pm when five miscreants knocked on the door of the house asking the lady, identified as Jasveer Kaur (50), about her son Gurmeet Singh Sonu, who owns a shop named Meet Batteries situated at Kabadi Market in Fazalganj.
The miscreants after getting the door opened, dragged the lady to the third room of the house. The three rooms in the house are situated in a row, where the almirah was kept. When Jasveer refused to hand over the keys of the almirah, they cut her throat with a sharp-edged knife and robbed cash and jewellery worth lakhs and escaped through the back door thinking that the woman had died.
Some how, Jasveer mustered courage and crawled to the first room that is drawing room of the house and opened the bolted shutter and screamed for help.
Hearing her cries, a neighbour Sudha Sharma informed her daughter’s sister-in-law, Inderjeet Kaur, who lived at the back lane of the house of the victim. The two took the victim to hospital where according to attending doctors her condition was stated to be critical.
As news of the grisly incident spread in the densely populated area, panic gripped the area and police reached the spot but only after an hour after the incident.
Earlier, after admitting Jasveer at a private hospital in Kakadev, Inderjeet Kaur informed the victim’s son, Gurmeet Singh Sonu, daughter Jasmeet Kaur and her husband Rupinder Singh. After getting the news, several people of the Sikh community and neighbours of the victim gathered at the hospital and at the site of the incident.
Wincing in pain at the intensive care unit of the hospital, Jasveer was repeatedly taking the name of one Manoj. Standing besides his mother, Gurmeet said, “My father died 10 years back and after the marriage of my sister, I used to stay alone in the house along with my mother.”
Giving clue about Manoj, Gurmeet said, “Manoj had worked in my house when construction work was done nearly eight months back. Since then we had no contact with Manoj.”
Jasveer Kaur said, “One person held my hand another held my feet and third tied my hand when I refused to hand them the keys.” With these words she again became unconscious.
However, police claimed that it was one man’s work and a person had been nabbed in this connection. However, they refused to divulge any further details about the arrest.
SP West Akhilesh Kumar said, “Whoever is responsible for today’s incident would not be spared by the police.”
