New Delhi: In a sensational daylight robbery in Gurgaon, 8 armed men looted 32.5 kg gold worth Rs 9 crore from Manappuram Finance Company, situated at the New Railway Road, on Thursday morning. Three persons, including one bank guard and two customers, were injured during the robbery and were admitted to the civil hospital.
According to the police, the robbers, who are believed to be 7 to 8 in number, took away the mobile phones from the firm’s employees who offer loans in lieu of gold deposits. They also took away all the cartridges after snatching the rifle from the guard on duty.
“Five robbers came to the first floor branch around 11 am on Thursday posing as customers. They also entered their address in the visitors’ register. Before anyone had any inkling of what was about to go down, two of them suddenly pounced on the guard and hit him on the head with a knife and took him inside. The duo snatched his rifle whereas others took the rest of the staff as hostage, brandishing knives.
The police, however, said that one or two of them also had firearms. The four staffers and customers were threatened with dire consequences and asked to remain quiet during the next half hour throughout which they cleaned out the gold, worth crores, from the lockers,” said a senior police official.
“An alert has been sounded and the police team is going through the CCTV footage. The robbers will be identified and caught soon,” said a senior Gurugram police official.
A team of forensics and fingerprint experts also reached the spot and collected evidence. “We will release the pictures of the culprits within a couple of hours. An eyewitness, who was inside the Mannapuram branch, said that the robbers were drunk,” said the official.
