The Tribune, December 28, 1998
Bus passengers robbed
From Our Correspondent
GURGAON, Dec 27 — Taking the advantage of fog, six unidentified persons armed with revolvers and knives, robbed passengers of a Haryana Roadways bus on the Gurgaon-Pataudi road today.
According to sources, a Haryana Roadways bus bound for Jaipur via Delhi left Chandigarh yesterday at about 4 p.m. As it reached near Wazirpur village on the Gurgaon-Pataudi road, 12 km from here, at about 2 a.m., two of its tyres got punctured. The driver, the conductor, Mukund Lal, and a passenger got down from the bus, when six youths carrying revolvers, knives and lathis surrounded them.
The assailants tied them with a rope and took control of the bus.
They told the passengers to handover valuables, including cash, to them else they would kill them. There were around 30 passengers in the bus.
They took away around Rs 6500 from the conductor and decamped with goods worth Rs 2 lakh.
A senior police officer said it appeared that the assailants had come with a planning. They might have thrown nails on the road so that the bus would get punctured.
The SSP, Mr Khusi Ram Dahiya, called a meeting of police officers of the district to trace the assailants.
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