Chandigarh woman held hostage, robbed of Rs 37,000, gold jewellery

The unfortunate pistillate has been identified arsenic Raksha Sharma, who has been surviving successful a shop-cum-flat astatine Sector 27 successful Chandigarh. She has been surviving unsocial aft the decease of her husband. Her lad stays successful the US. She owns a hardware store connected the crushed level and her location is connected the archetypal floor.

According to Raksha, the incidental took spot astatine astir 3.15 am, erstwhile she was asleep. The robbers climbed the partition of her level from the transformer to scope inside.

“I was sleeping erstwhile abruptly 4 men came wrong my country and past tied maine with a rope. They asked maine to manus implicit keys to the almirah and told maine to support quiet,” alleged Raksha.

The pistillate said that the robbers did not wounded her, though they had an robust rod successful their hand.

I gave them the key. Then they fled aft taking the golden ornaments and immoderate currency worthy Rs 37,000 from the almirah. The robbers were speaking successful a Haryanvi accent, she said.

“They remained astatine my location for astir 20-25 minutes, and past fled distant aft freeing maine from the rope,” Raksha said. The complainant past raised an alarm and informed the police.

An FIR has been registered and probe has been initiated.