Assam: Hardware store owner looted at gunpoint by miscreants in Barpeta

In a sensational incident, four miscreants looted a businessman in Barpeta on January 6. The incident took place at Radhe Krishna Hardware in Kalahbhanga on Barpeta Road. 

In the evening of January 6, a group of four miscreants showed pistols to the businessman and looted money. 
The miscreants first entered the hardware store in the form of a customer and asked for the price of a rod of a particular company.

The group of miscreants then looted the businessman and proprietor of Radhe Krishna Hardware store Dipankar Saha after engaging in a scuffle, as alleged by store worker.

The gang of miscreants then dashed off from the store with around Rs 50,000.

Narrating the sensational incident, an employee of the hardware store said, “Me and boss were both engaged in some accounting work, when suddenly four persons entered the store and asked for the price of a rod. Then after few minutes one of the four persons took out a dao (knife), while another took out a pistol and aimed at my boss. I managed to move out of the store and alert the labours staying nearby. But when I reached the store with the people, my boss said that the miscreants looted all the money available in the store and left on their bikes”.

Barpeta police rushed to the spot after being informed about the incident. Police are currently investigating the matter.

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