Panchkula man robbed of car at gunpoint

PANCHKULA: A car loot was reported from Panchkula last night when a landlord was kidnapped from Sector 9 and thrown in a secluded area in Dera Bassi. Subhash Kang, a resident of Sector 4 here, went out in his Verna car around 11.40 pm to Sector 9 to have eggs from a roadside vendor. The vendor used to sit near Sagar Ratna and Burn Gym.

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Tribune News Service

Panchkula, November 16

A car loot was reported from Panchkula last night when a landlord was kidnapped from Sector 9 and thrown in a secluded area in Dera Bassi.

Subhash Kang, a resident of Sector 4 here, went out in his Verna car around 11.40 pm to Sector 9 to have eggs from a roadside vendor. The vendor used to sit near Sagar Ratna and Burn Gym.

After having eggs, he started smoking in his car. A youth came and asked for a matchbox from Kang. He gave him the lighter. After that another youth came and asked for a lighter and started enquiring where he could have food there.

As Kang was talking to him, two more youths came and entered the car. They thrashed him and pointed a revolver at his head. They allegedly took control of the car and drove towards Dera Bassi. According to Kang, they threw him out of the car at a secluded place.

The miscreants also took away his mobile phone and an ATM card. He came back and reported the matter at the Sector 10 police post.

“We have registered a case under Section 379 B of the Indian Penal Code and under the Arms Act. We tried to look for CCTV footage of the place in Sector 9, but he was stationed at a spot where there were no cameras,” said the Station House Officer (SHO) of the Sector 5 police station, Inspector Karanvir Singh.

Old man robbed of gold ‘kara’

Karnail Singh, a resident of Lalru, had come to the Sector 6-based Command Hospital for taking medicine. As he was going back, a Maruti car stopped near him. A woman came out and told him that she knew him and would drop him back to Lalru as she too was going there. One more woman and the driver were already in the car. As the old man sat inside the car, the driver took rounds of Sector 6. After some time, one of the women asked him to sit in the front seat. As he stepped out of the car, they fled away. He later realised that he had lost his gold “kara". A case has been registered in this regard.

Past cases

On January 17, a girl was kidnapped, raped and then her Hyundai i-20 car was taken away forcibly from her. The car was later recovered.

On March 21, two robbers forcibly took away a Honda City car from an engineering student near the Sector 19 railway T-point.