10 June,2010 08:27 AM IST | | MiD DAY Correspondent
Daylight robbery at a wheat store in Adarsh Nagar
On Wednesday afternoon, residents of Adarsh Nagar in northwest Delhi were in for a nasty surprise. Around 3.30 pm, six men armed with guns and knives entered the shop of Prem Chand Jindal (40). While two of them stood guard outside, the rest held the store employees at gunpoint.
Six men armed with guns and knives looted the Ambika store (above)
and fled from the shop on their bikes . pic/mid day
u00a0"The robbers snatched the mobile phones of the staff and cut the wire of the landline connections. The shop, Ambika Traders, is a wholesale store of wheat and large sums of money are often kept in the locker. They took away around Rs 15 lakh from the shop. When a staff of the shop resisted the robbers thrashed him and fled from the shop on their bikes," said a police officer.
Local businessmen expressed their anger against the alleged inaction of the police by protesting on the streets. "The owner of the shop was not there and the robbers had information about the huge amount of cash kept in the safe. This indicates the involvement of some insider. We have registered an FIR," the officer added.
"This was the first big incident in this area. The market was crowded but still the robbers managed to escape. There is no barricading on the roads and there wasn't any policeman in the area at that time," said Ashok, a local shopkeeper.
