This Article is From Mar 02, 2010

Employees taken hostage during Delhi robbery

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New Delhi: Three masked men barged into the office of All India Football Federation (AIFF) in south-west Delhi in the wee hours on Monday and decamped with a van and other articles after holding two employees hostage.

The incident took place in Sector 19 of Dwarka at around 2 AM. The robbers entered the building where the office of the country's apex football body is located and held hostage a security guard and a driver present there.

"They locked the guard and the driver in a room before beating them up. They decamped with two LCD TV sets, a computer, fire extinguishing equipment, a Maruti van and an inverter battery," a senior police official said.

The guard and the driver managed to inform police at around 3:15 AM about the incident after the robbers left the place.

Police suspect the hand of gangs operating in the area. A case has been registered and efforts are on to nab the robbers.
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