Three members of a family were beaten with wooden rods and robbed of cash and jewellery by a gang of dacoits at Manikpura village in Pinjore on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday.
The incident took place around 2 am after Gurmeet Singh opened the door to check on the dog barking outside.
“As soon as I opened the door, some men attacked me with a wooden rod on the head, and I lost consciousness,” Gurmeet Singh said, who was admitted to General Hospital, Sector 6, along with his wife, and son.
The gang members then entered the house and attacked Gurmeet’s wife. They asked her two sons, both married, to open the doors of their rooms. They also attacked one of the sons. The dacoits damaged their cellphones.
The dacoits had their faces covered and one of them carried a country-made pistol, according to the family.
“Some of them overpowered the family, while others ransacked the house. They looted around Rs 38,000 and some jewellery items,” said Mohinder Singh, SHO of Pinjore police station.
Police Commissioner O P Singh said, “We suspect it was a Kala Kachha gang, or the Baawariyas who are active in summer and target isolated houses in distant villages.
“They are also suspected to be involved in the Rs 25,000 loot at one of the houses in village Barwala on May 16. The police reached the spot immediately, but the gang took advantage of the darkness and the forest,” Singh said.
He added that special squads had been constituted to track the gang and villagers
encouraged to put Thikri Pehra in place. “We have strengthened night patrolling. The railway station, bus stand and four-wheelers will be checked to disrupt such movement,” he said.
The injured family members were discharged from the hospital after treatment.