In a continuing spate of robberies in the city, after three incidents on Friday, robbers struck at two places on Saturday. Two more incidents of robbery, which had occurred on Friday night, also came to light on Saturday.
In an incident at Kirti Nagar in west Delhi around 11 am on Saturday, four bike-borne robbers intercepted Vikas Khanna (41), a plywood trader, at C-Block, Kirti Nagar, when he got down from his Innova car to take his daughter for tuition. They snatched a bag containing `15 lakhs in cash at gunpoint and fled. Mr Khanna was on his way to deposit the amount in the D-Block branch of Indian Overseas Bank.
At Govindpuri in southeast Delhi, seven assailants barged into a mobile phone shop in TA-Block of Tughlakabad Extension and assaulted salesman Rashid, 21, with baseball clubs when he resisted their robbery attempt. They escaped with `2.5 lakhs in cash and mobile phones worth `50,000 from the shop “Mobile Solutions”. An unconscious Rashid was rushed to a hospital where he was reported to be out of danger. The police suspects that the assailants had personal enmity with Rashid.
On Friday, Harish Chandra, 60, a grocery shop owner, was shot at by unidentified robbers around 10 pm when he was returning home after closing his shop at Brahmpuri in New Usmanpur area of northeast Delhi. The robbers tried to snatch the cash bag but Mr Chandra managed to raise an alarm making them flee.
In another incident, three security guards Santosh Singh, 27, Ashok Kumar Singh, 28, and Bijru Singh, 27, were thrashed by nine masked assailants who fled with `8,000 in cash and the three mobile phones of the victims on Friday around 9.15 pm at New Ashok Nagar. The incident was reported on Saturday morning. The victims, work with a private television news channel.