According to police officers, Shashi Kant Mishra (41) was returning to his Ghaziabad home in his Innova after shutting his Laxmi Nagar jewellery shop. He was attacked after he stopped to take a leak at the Telco T-point.“He told us the robbers checked his pockets at gunpoint and took the Rs 400 he had. Mad at finding such little money, they beat him up,” the police said.

Mishra told the police that the robbers told him, “You have such a big car and yet you carry such a small amount of money” before beating him up. They then took his diamond ring, a gold chain and his wristwatch before fleeing in his Innova. Mishra told the police he had kept the cash and the cheque at the back in his car.

Mishra then called the PCR, who reached the spot and rushed him to a nearby hospital. “He was later transferred to the ICU at Yashodha Hospital in Ghaziabad. His condition is now stable and he has been shifted to the ward,” a senior police officer said.