Carjackers assault student, flee with Honda City

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 4

In a carjacking incident, five unidentified assailants forcibly took away a Honda City car belonging to a 20-year-old student after assaulting him in Sector 49 late last night.

The incident occurred at 9.30 pm when the student, Kartik Gupta, was reportedly returning to his residence at Advocates' Society in Sector 49 after meeting his friends in Sector 45.

The victim is a third-year electronics student at the Chandigarh Group of Colleges (CGC). According to the victim’s father, Anil Kumar Gupta, the incident occurred after five youths, who were in a Swift car, overtook the victim’s vehicle at the Sector 47 light point. He alleged that the youths were drunk. As soon as the victim reached near Advocates' Society in Sector 49, the miscreants stopped the victim and pulled him out. “They threatened my son and manhandled him," said Anil Gupta.

The police said preliminary investigation revealed that the miscreants were following the victim and were looking for the right opportunity to strike. “It appears the miscreants were chasing the victim from Sector 45 and after finding a dark place, they struck and forcibly took away the car. On the basis of the victim’s statement, sketches have been released and a case under Sections 341 and 392 of the IPC has been registered at the Sector 34 police station,” said Sector 34 SHO Kirpal Singh.

No breakthrough in last year's carjacking case

The UT police are still groping in the dark in a carjacking case which took place on July 7, 2014, when a Swift Dzire of a senior Haryana Government official was forcibly taken away in Sector 43.

The victim was waylaid, beaten up and robbed. Ishwar Singh, an Undersecretary in the Law Department, had told the police that unidentified persons forcibly entered his car and one of them drove it out of the city. He was also thrashed. The car was later found abandoned, but there is no trace of the robbers.