Dairy owner robbed of seven buffaloes
NEWDELHI: The Delhi Police have a new task at hand — to find 13 buffaloes, robbed and stolen, from a dairy owner in outer Delhi.
A little over a month, after the dairy owner reported the theft of his seven buffaloes, the man was robbed of his six buffaloes again on Friday night.
At least six armed men allegedly held him at gunpoint, locked the other houses in his neighbourhood and fled with his six buffaloes.
Rakesh Yadav, 50, the owner of the dairy, in outer Delhi’s Begumpur said while police are yet to crack the first case and retrieve his missing buffaloes, the robbers have struck again. “I had bought the new buffaloes, only last week, from Rajasthan and Rohtak in Haryana. Each buffalo cost me around ₹80,000 to ₹1 lakh. I have suffered a loss of over ₹10 lakh in the last two months,” Yadav said.
Yadav said that at his dairy there are 20 cows too but the armed men did not take the cows.
Yadav said that at the Begumpur police station, he had filed a report about being held at gunpoint and robbed but police allegedly changed the words of his complaint and made it into a case of theft(less heinous crime compared to robbery).
The words gunpoint were allegedly missing in the FIR.
Dcp(rohini) Rajneesh Gupta was not available for comments despite repeated calls and a text message.
Yadav, in his complaint has given police, has given the description of his missing buffaloes as: One has a short pair of horns, another has a broken left horn, the third has a long tail and the others with medium sized horns.
Explaining how he was robbed Yadav said that at around 2.30 am, he heard noises outside his farm in Begumpur and spotted a truck parked outside his dairy.
“Near the truck, I saw some men who had opened the gates of my dairy. I tried to raise an alarm but two men came from behind and overpowered me and held me at gunpoint. The other men were also armed. They threatened to shoot me if I made a noise,” Yadav said remembering the ordeal.
The men allegedly stocked 8 buffaloes in their truck and fled the spot.
Yadav said he immediately called the police control room and filed a complaint.
An hour later, he found two buffaloes near a signal in the area. Police suspect the two buffaloes may have escaped from the truck. Police have registered a case at the Begumpur police station.
“I am left with only eightbuffaloes now,” Yadav said.