21 months on, no recovery in 2-kg gold robbery case

Nikhil Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, November 6

Over one year and nine months have been passed but the Ludhiana police have failed to recover 2 kg of gold that was looted by armed robbers from VK Jewellers, Ghumar Mandi, here.

The owner of the jewellery, Vinay Verma, has been running from pillar to post for the recovery of gold worth lakhs.

On January 29, 2020, masked robbers barged into VK Jewellers in Ghumar Mandi, where they had held its owner and a worker captive and looted 2 kg of gold worth Rs 90 lakhs.

Talking to The Tribune, Vinay said since the day robbers looted gold from his showroom, he had been visiting offices of the Police Commissioner, Ludhiana, and other senior officials. Every time he met the officials, they assured that the looted gold would be recovered soon. However, more than 21 months have been passed but the gold is yet to be recovered.

Verma said all accused in the case were nabbed by the police and they were also questioned by the police. Still, there was no sign of any gold recovery.

“We had also met former DGP Dinkar Gupta and other senior officials at the Punjab Police headquarters and they also given directions to the Ludhiana police in this regard. Now, we will meet the newly appointed Police Commissioner, Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, and will request him to expedite the probe and bring the accused for questioning again so that our valuables could be recovered,” alleged the jeweller.

He said if the police would not speed up probe, he would approach the state Chief Minister and the Punjab DGP soon.