{"id":302010,"date":"2018-08-31T06:10:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T06:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302010"},"modified":"2018-08-31T06:10:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T06:10:57","slug":"robbers-looted-jewellery-worth-rs-50-lakh-from-east-delhis-pandav-nagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/robbers-looted-jewellery-worth-rs-50-lakh-from-east-delhis-pandav-nagar\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbers looted Jewellery worth Rs 50 lakh from East Delhi&#8217;s Pandav Nagar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301486 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-696x476.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene.jpg 711w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-614x420.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/>Four men allegedly robbed a jewellery showroom of valuables worth lakhs of rupees at gunpoint in east Delhi&#8217;s Pandav Nagar on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (east), the shop owner and his wife were\u00a0held hostage at gunpoint\u00a0by\u00a0three armed robbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The accused fled\u00a0with Rs 2 lakh cash and jewellery worth several lakhs of rupees, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">CCTV cameras installed inside and outside the showroom were noticed by the robbers, they damaged the cameras and took the Digital Video Recorder along with jewellery worth lakhs of rupees, the officer said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0According to the sources, four accused came in a car. The robbers\u00a0parked the car in front of the showroom and one among them stood outside the showroom keeping an eye on the activities, while the other\u00a0three men, each armed with a pistol barged into the showroom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">They allegedly held the shop owner and his wife at gunpoint, threatened to shoot them if they shouted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The robbers looted diamonds, silver and gold jewellery that were on display and carried it in a bag. While fleeing from the jewellery shop, they again threatened to shoot the couple if they shouted in defense, a police officer said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police along with a crime\u00a0and forensics team\u00a0rushed to the spot after they were informed about the incident and collected fingerprint and other evidence as well, the officer added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A case was registered by police and the matter is being investigated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four men allegedly robbed a jewellery showroom of valuables worth lakhs of rupees at gunpoint in east Delhi&#8217;s Pandav Nagar on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0 According to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (east), the shop owner and his wife were\u00a0held hostage at gunpoint\u00a0by\u00a0three armed robbers. The accused fled\u00a0with Rs 2 lakh cash and jewellery worth several lakhs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[429,3780,4520,4518,4519],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302011,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302010\/revisions\/302011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}