Domestic helps decamp with ₹17L from Amritsar house
AMRITSAR:A Nepalese man and his wife, who worked as domestic helps in a house at White Avenue here, along with their three aides on Sunday decamped with ₹17 lakh and other valuables after making the house owners captive, the police said on Monday.
Complainant Ravinder Arora (50), who owns a readymade garment shop at Katra Jaimal Singh, here, said, “I had employed a Nepalese couple as domestic helps a week ago. They identified themselves as Santosh Joshi and his wife Divya Joshi and claimed to be residents of New Delhi. My wife (Savita Arora) had gone out of the country. I along with my son , daughter-in-law and their daughter were in the house. At around 10 pm on Sunday, my son left the house. ”
“At around 11 pm, I heard someone knocking at my room door. As I was about to unlock the door, I heard someone breaking the glass of my door to unlock it. As the door got opened, two-unidentified men overpowered me and Santosh broke the lock of my cupboard. Divya and other unidentified man held my daughterin-law
JEWELLERY, INNOVA CAR, PISTOL AND THREE PHONES ALSO STOLEN; FIVE BOOKED
hostage.” he said.
After managing to escape from the room, I tried to get my pistol from other room when the accused attacked me with screwdrivers, he said.
They robbed ₹17 lakh cash, gold and diamond jewellery, my pistol, three mobile phones and Innova car and fled the house, added the complainant.
Station house officer (SHO) of Civil Lines Shivdarshan Singh, said “Santosh, Divya and three unidentified men were seen decamping with car and valuables from the house in a CCTV camera. At around 1 am, we found Innova car parked with punctured tires near Dhariwal town . ”
A case has been registered against Santosh Joshi, Divya Joshi and three unidentified men at Civil Lines police station under Sections 379 (punishment for theft) and 394 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).