Rajasthan: 5 men loot 15 L, employees held hostage at gunpoint in Jaipur

Jaipur: Five unidentified armed men allegedly looted cash amounting to more than Rs 15 lakh from a timber showroom in Karni vihar police station area of Jaipur on Saturday, police said.

The accused held two employees of the showroom hostage at gunpoint and looted Rs 15.48 Lakh in cash. They also took away the digital video recorder of CCTV, they said. "The incident occurred near an express highway in Karni Vihar area where the accused came on a motorcycle and entered the showroom.

They held the employee's hostage at gunpoint and looted the cash," they said. They also attacked the staff. Footage of CCTV cameras installed in the area is being examined to identify the accused. A team from the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) collected evidence from the crime scene. Recently, In a robbery case of about Rs 1.5 Crore from a flour trader about 10 days ago in Jaipur, the hands of the police are still empty.

According to data recently released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) of 2021, Rajasthan has shown an expandable increase in crime rates. Rajasthan saw an increase of 11.01 percent in the registration of criminal cases in 2021, as compared to the year 2020, stated police officials said on Monday. Speaking to reporters about the crime situation in the state in 2021, Rajasthan DGP ML Lather attributed the increase in the registration of criminal cases to the easing of Covid-19 restrictions in 2021. He said that lesser crimes took place in 2020 as compared to any normal year because of the Covid-19 lockdown, which was in place for most of 2020.