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Wednesday, Aug 18, 2004

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Robbery in Anand Vihar

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, AUG. 17. Half-a-dozen armed men entered the house of a 70-year-old retired Army brigadier and robbed the family of cash and jewellery at Anand Vihar in East Delhi today.

According to the police, it all happened in the house of Brigadier (Retd.) K.S. Chaddha, a resident of Hargobind Enclave in Anand Vihar, around 4 a.m. Six armed men managed to gain access by cutting a grill in the rear of the house. At that time, Brig. Chaddha, his wife and son-in-law, Avinash, were sleeping in the house. Brig. Chaddha's daughter was not in the house.

The intruders forced the inmates of the house into a room at gunpoint, tied them up and locked them from outside. They then managed to decamp with Rs. 70,000 in cash and jewellery worth Rs. 35,000. It was about 45 minutes after the dacoits left that the family managed to call up the Police Control Room around 5-30 a.m. The dacoits themselves stayed put in the house for about 45 minutes.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the dacoits approached the house, which is in a corner, from the road on the backside. While big gates had been erected in front of the house, the boundary wall on the backside was not very high. It also appeared that the dacoits conducted a recce of the house before committing the crime. The police are also finding it difficult to prepare portraits of the culprits as all of them were masked.

However, the modus operandi of the culprits suggests that the culprits could well be illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.

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