Andheri’s elderly couple robbed at knife-point, two held, one at large

The crime branch unit 10 has arrested two robbers who looted a senior citizen couple at knife-point from a posh society of Andheri (east). Their third accomplice is yet to be held, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Detection1) Nisar Tamboli.

The elderly couple lives alone in their residence and was looted on January 17. The case was registered at Andheri police station. Considering the sensitivity of the case the crime branch, too, started to conduct a parallel investigation into the matter and got breakthrough on February 4.

The 75-year-old elderly man is bed-ridden, so his wife (69) had employed Shikandar Sharma (32) in 2016 to take care of her ailing husband.

But after winning the confidence for 1.5 years of work Sharma hatched a plan with his two accomplices to loot the couple. The trio entered couple's posh society at 5 pm on January 17 and looted jewellery, camera, mobile phones as well as cash collectively worth Rs. 7.32 lakh.

“The robbers had confined elderly couple in a room and bundled the property worth Rs. 7.32 lakh in a bag before fleeing from the spot. Meanwhile, the maid arrived there as usual. They took the maid inside, threatened her to keep quite at knife-point and confined her too inside the room where the elderly couple was forced to remain silent,” said a senior crime branch officer Shrimant Shinde.