Elderly couple robbed at gunpoint

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, December 10

An elderly couple was robbed of cash and jewellery at gunpoint by two unidentified men in the Punjabi Bagh area, west Delhi, a police official said.

The police received a call on Sunday about the incident around 8.30 pm. The victim, Girdhari Lal (65), told the police that two men allegedly barged into his house and fled with cash, mobile phones and gold jewellery, he said.

Lal, who runs a finance company, alleged that the accused came to his house on the pretext of paying an instalment for a truck, the official said.

After entering the house, they took out their pistols and robbed the couple. Before leaving, the robbers also took away the digital video recorder of the CCTV camera.