TWO HELD FOR ROBBERY DURING WHICH 30YROLD JUMPED TO DEATH

NEWDELHI: Delhi Police on Thursday arrested two men and claimed to have solved a Karol Bagh robbery case during which a domestic help was killed.

The 30-year-old domestic help had jumped out of the window of her employer’s house in central Delhi’s Karol Bagh on May 30 after spotting four robbers in the house. The house belonged to a senior citizen couple – Avinash Chander Bhalla and his wife Bulbul Bhalla.

The arrested accused were identified as Vinay Kumar and Lilu Pal. One countrymade pistol and two cartridges were recovered from them.

Police said the robbery was planned by one Raju, who worked in another house in the same locality where the elderly couple lived. Raju had told his friends, Vinay, Lilu and Lal Bahadur, that the elderly couple kept huge amounts of cash and jewellery at their home. “They planned to rob the couple and become rich overnight,” said an officer.

Deputy commissioner of police (central) Mandeep Singh Randhawa said that on May 30, the police control room was informed that a woman was lying injured outside a building in Park Road, Karol Bagh. A police team reached the spot and rushed the woman to Lady Hardinge Hospital where she was declared brought dead.

When policemen reached the first floor of the building they found the main door ajar and 78-year-old Avinash Bhalla tied up. They went to the second floor and found Hari Ram, the 48-yearold help of the house, injured with his hands and legs tied with a rope.

The elderly man told police that the incident took place when his wife was out with their daughter, Geetanjali, who was visitig them from Singapore. The four robbers barged in the house around 11am after ringing the door bell. Two of the men then allegedly whipped out pistols and held the couple hostage.

The couple’s domestic help, Geeta, who had come to work around 10.30am, was overpowered and her hands and legs were tied with her dupatta.

“The robbers beat up Bhalla and Hari Ram and ransacked the house. When they threatened to kill Geeta if she raised an alarm, she panicked and somehow escaped to the bathroom and locked herself in there. From there she jumped down through a window,” said the DCP.

THE DOMESTIC HELP, GEETA, 30, HAD JUMPED OUT OF A SECOND FLOOR WINDOW AFTER SPOTTING THE ROBBERS