Delhi Metro staffer stabbed in control room, Rs 12 lakh looted

A Delhi Metro staffer was stabbed and robbed of Rs 12 lakh by unidentified men in station control room on Platform Number Two of Rajinder Place Metro station on Monday morning within just 20 minutes.

A CISF official said CCTV footage had revealed two men in mid-twenties, faces covered with handkerchives, enter the Rajendra Nagar Metro station at 5.14 am. After getting frisked through door frame metal detector and checking of their baggage through X-ray scanner, they were allowed to enter inside the Metro station premises.

They directly reached the control room located on Pl-atform No. 2 of the station and knocked at the door and asked the control room in-charge Kunal Kishore to open the door. They told Mr Kishore that they had recharged their Metro card on Sunday with Rs 100 and had given Rs 500 to pay for it, but alleged the cashier hadn’t returned remaining amount to them. They insisted on registering a complaint on this issue.

Hearing their complaint, Mr Kishore allowed them to enter the control room. Inside the control room, the two men stabbed Mr Kish-ore in stomach and on his wrist with a three-inch kn-ife that was later recovered from the spot. When Mr Kishore collapsed on the floor, they robbed Rs 12 lakh from the locker kept inside the control room and transferred the cash to a bag they had carried with them and fled the station at 5.34 am.

“When the duo were exiting the Metro station, a CISF security person tried to top them as he witnessed blood stains on one of the robber’s shirt, but they managed to flee from the spot,” said a CISF official.

“Nobody raised an alarm after the incident and it was a security official who saw the wounded man and inquired about the matter,” the official said, adding that the agency has prepared a report on the incident.

The CISF official denied any security lapse. “We have screen shot X-ray machine from which baggage of robbers were passed for security clearance. No sharp object was found in their baggage. It is also yet to be ascertained whether they carried the knife to the paid area or it was already present there,” said the CISF official.

A senior DMRC official said that the staffer is “out of danger ” and is undergoing treatment at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.

The police confirmed that a FIR has been filed in the case and several teams have been formed to nab the two robbers.