Daylight robbery in Burrabazar area shocks residents

A gang of five dacoits, armed with firearms, barged into a flat on the fourth floor of Daga House at 89, Netaji Subhas Road at around 9.45 am on Thursday.

They looted Rs 70,000-Rs 80,000 in cash, four mobile sets and gold jewellery.

The gang ransacked the house for about an hour. Before feeling from the flat, the dacoits bolted the flat from outside.

According to police the dacoits entered the house without any hassles, as the gate of the flat was unlocked.

The police are suspecting that the gang is from UP or Bihar and are preparing sketches of the criminals based on the information of the people present at the site of incident.

After entering the house, they disconnected the landline phones too and attacked Indramal Lodha (35) who was sleeping there.

The dacoits asked him to hand over all the money and valuables. Two of them hit Indramal with the butt of a pistol. Indramal pleaded to leave him alone as he was undergoing a treatment of brain tumour.

Then, they trained their gun Indramal’s grandmother, Kiran Devi Lodha, who handed over the keys to them.

The dacoits ransacked three wardrobes in three rooms of the flat and looted valuables. Indramal’s father Prakash Lodha, a businessman, stays in Aiwal, Manipur.

The family is involved in road construction and share trading business. They also own two other flats in the building and they have been staying at the place for about 30 years.

Besides Indramal and his grandmother, a cook and a servant were in the flat when the dacoits barged in. Other than these two servants, the household employs a driver and another maidservant.