Ghaziabad, Aug 12 (Inditop.com) About a dozen armed men robbed the house of a retired Border Security Force (BSF) officer here of cash and jewellery worth nearly Rs.3 lakh, police said Wednesday. The robbery was followed by angry protests by locals who held a police inspector hostage for an hour.
The incident occurred late Tuesday night in Karhera locality under Sahibabad police station of Ghaziabad, police said.
A dozen men armed with pistols, iron rods and knives barged into the house of Anil Kumar Bansal, a retired officer of the BSF. At the time Bansal, his mother, wife and two children were asleep in the house, police said.
The armed men tied the hands of the family and locked them in a room and then robbed the house of cash, jewellery and other valuables worth Rs.3 lakh, police added.
On Wednesday morning Bansal and his family members managed to free themselves and reported the matter to the police.
Locals, however, alleged that the police did not cooperate with Bansal in lodging the complaint. In protest of the incident, angry locals took to the streets, blocked traffic and staged a protest outside the police post and kept a police inspector hostage for an hour.
The inspector could be freed only after the assistant superintendent of police assured the protesters that action would be taken to nab the accused.
“We have registered a case of robbery and would soon solve the case. The problem arose when locals jammed traffic on the busy road leading to Delhi,” said circle officer Happy Guptan.
