Six take 4-yr-old hostage, loot house

Ambala: Six miscreants have been accused of looting cash worth around Rs 25,000 and jewellery worth Rs 3 lakhs from a house situated at Sector 32 in the Ambala Cantonment in the wee hours of Friday.

According to information, the first floor of the house was rented out to a family of three, while the owner of the house lived on the ground floor. On the first floor, a woman lived mostly alone with her four-year-old son while her husband worked with a transport firm at Meerut.

The woman, Geeta, reported to the police that while she was asleep, the masked miscreants broke into the house. “After taking my child hostage, they woke me up gagging my mouth and asked me to take all the jewellery and cash out,” she said. It was alleged that the miscreants came armed with knives and iron rods.

Geeta said she woke up the owner, Amit Bhalla, only after the burglars left the house, after which police were informed. Geeta also called up her husband, Krishan, who came from Meerut.

Parao police station SHO Bhushan Das said that a case was registered under Section 458 of the IPC against six unidentified men on the complaint and statements of the woman on Friday night.