Jeweller’s bid to save gold for kids cost him his life

NEWDELHI: A jeweller’s desperate efforts to save some gold for his children’s “future” cost him his life during a robbery at their showroom in north Delhi’s Adarsh Nagar on Tuesday afternoon.

Hemant Kaushal, 40, died after being shot multiple times in front of his 13-year-old son at their jewellery showroom in Adarsh Nagar on Tuesday.

The three robbers, who were wearing helmets, were yet to be identified more than 24 hours after the crime, said Aslam Khan, deputy commissioner of police (northwest). Describing the crime, Kaushal’s son, a Class 8 student, said that his father was tutoring him in an enclosure at the showroom when the robbers struck around 4 pm.