AHMEDABAD: Four robbers barged into the house of a chartered accountant at Shela village in Sanand taluka of Ahmedabad district in the wee hours on Tuesday, robbed him and his wife of jewelry and other valuables worth Rs 2 lakh at knifepoint and fled.
This is the second robbery on the Bopal-Shela stretch in just a month.
Manoj Agrawal, 43, a resident of Arcus Sky Bungalows in Shela, in his FIR with Bopal police stated that he works as a CA for a realty developer in Prahladnagar.
At around 3am on Monday, when Agrawal and his wife, Vandana, were asleep in their bedroom on the first floor of their house, they heard a noise and woke up.
As they woke up, they found four men, between 30 and 35 years old, in front of them. The men shone a torch on the couple’s faces and threatened to kill them if they spoke.
The four men had knives which they pointed at the couple. They forcibly removed Agrawal’s 7-gram gold bracelet, and then Vandana’s 15-gram mangalsutra, and gold bangles, weighing around 50g.
The four men told Agrawal to open their sons’ room, but he pleaded saying his kids were unwell and they should not wake them up.
Meanwhile, Manoj’s older son woke up and locked his room from the inside.
The robbers then went downstairs for a while and left the house after some time.
Manoj’s son called a relative, who informed police of the robbery.
After the robbers left, Manoj went downstairs and found the house ransacked. He discovered that the had also taken his laptop, worth about Rs 30,000.
Bopal police filed a complaint of robbery and abetment against the four men.
On July 31, four accused persons entered a house in Ghuma and made off with valuables worth Rs 2 lakh after confining the victims to the house. The case is still unsolved.
