Four armed goons struck thrice during the wee hours of Monday, waylaying people in their cars and robbing them.
After robbing seven persons in the National Capital Region, the goons walked off, dumping a snatched car and making a mockery of night-time police patrols and pickets.
Their first targeted was a Toyota Innova car and its driver.
The victim Rajpal Singh told police that he works as driver for TSG company which provides taxi services to IBN 7 news channel.
After dropping three employees in north-east Delhi, he was returning to the company’s office in Noida.
When he neared Apsara border connecting north-east Delhi and Noida, four youths came in front of his car and forcibly entered the vehicle at gunpoint.
When he resisted, they robbed him and bashed him up till he fell unconscious. They put him on the backseat and drove the car towards south Delhi. There they waylaid a Santro car, robbing the people inside and leaving one of them injured.
Ashok Chhameja, 50, a resident of Jamia Nagar in south-east Delhi, told police that he was returning home with his 55-year-old wife Sangita and his 75-year-old mother Kaushalya from a relative’s house in Subhash Nagar after attending a jagran.
The Innova pulled up in front of their car, and three armed men got into at gunpoint.
One of them pointed a gun towards Chhameja and another put a knife to his wife’s neck.
They first snatched a gold chain from Sangita, and then tried to snatch an earring from Kaushalya. Chhameja managed to come out of the car and asked for help from passersby.
Seeing this, all the three goons rushed towards the stolen car and sped off, leaving Kausalya injured. Chhameja called the police control room, and rushed his mother to AIIMS.
The robbers then drove to Noida, where they waylaid yet another car and robbed four persons, who were on their way to Indira Gandhi International Airport.
They robbed cash and valuables worth around Rs 7 lakh from them. The next headed for Seelampur and dumped the car near a CNG filling station.
When Rajpal Singh woke up hours later, he found himself tied. With the help of passersby, he managed to come out of the car and report the incident to a nearby PCR van.
Cases have been filed with various police stations in the NCR, and police suspect that more people may have been robbed by the goons.
Police are cross-checking other incidents that took place during those four hours.