NEW DELHI, June 28 (PTI): A businessman was allegedly robbed of Rs 4.5 lakh and his scooter by at least four unidentified men in north Delhi’s Kashmere Gate area, police said on Wednesday.
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According to police, the victim stopped his vehicle on the Yudhishthir Setu flyover on Tuesday to attend a phone call when the culprits came there in a scooty and a motorcycle, and took away the money along with the vehicle.
“On Tuesday at 1:15 pm, a PCR call regarding the robbery of Rs 2 lakh and a scooter was received at the Kashmere Gate police station,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (north) Sagar Singh Kalsi said.
The victim Sunil Kumar Jain (56), a resident of Bihari Colony in Shahdara, told police that two men on a scooter pointed a pistol-like object at him and demanded the money. Later, two more men came there on a motorcycle.
“One of them asked Jain to give him the scooter keys. They then rode off with the scooter. Jain told us that cash worth Rs 4.5 lakh was inside the scooter’s boot,” the DCP said.
A case under IPC section 394 (voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery) and 34 (common intension) has been lodged at the Kashmere Gate police station, he said, adding that the investigation is on.
