Delhi couple robbed at gunpoint, victim's chilling FB post goes viral

New Delhi: A Delhi-based couple were allegedly robbed by two unidentified goons at gunpoint in the Rajouri garden area on Tuesday night.

The couple were returning from a coffee shop at around 2 am when the incident took place and the crime has been described in great detail by the victim, Ashish Tulsian, in a Facebook post that has gone viral. The post has received more than 3,800 shares in less than two days.

Ashish Tulsian wrote a post describing the crime in chilling detail.

According to Ashish, he was driving back home along with his wife and a colleague late Tuesday night and they stopped their car at Rajouri Garden to drop the colleague, who had booked a cab for a pick up from there. Just when they stopped their car, another vehicle, a Swift Dzire, with a lone occupant, halted to their side.

The driver of the other car then began asking Ashish for directions to a place.

“It was hardly 5 mins of waiting for his cab, our car engine was on, doors locked and windows rolled up. As per us, we were safe. And then a single man driven Swift dezire(totally unsuspecting, non threatening) stops beside us waving us to roll down the window for directions, as I rolled down the window he asked me some random direction and when I told him he kept on asking me same question again, as if he did not get the answer,” wrote Ashish in his post.

He then wrote that suddenly another man appeared near his window with a pistol in his hand and asked him threateningly to stop the engine of his car or he would shoot him.

Startled at the development, at first, Ashish tried to fist-fight the man and pushed the pistol out of the window. But then the gravity of the situation dawned to him and he realised their lives were at risk. In a bid to calm the man down, Ashish turned off his engine and asked him what he wanted.

Just then another man appeared on the side of his wife’s window and tried to open her side of the door as the doors had been unlocked when Ashish had turned the engine off.

"I started shouting again asking the guy to not open the door at Sakshi's side, as I had just promised to co-operate the first guy asked the other to leave her alone. Then starts the loot, one of them grabbed my gold chain and pulled it, the other asked me to take out by Gold Kada (bangle) . I kind of tried to fist fight again to save that Kada but then one of them loaded the gun and threatened to shoot. I said - 'ok, le jao (take it)'," he wrote.

Luckily for the couple, just then a police patrol gypsy approached the area where they were and the goons fled from the scene with what they stole.

Ashish managed to take down their car’s number and filed an FIR at a police station. He wrote that the most disturbing part of the incident was that it took place in a busy area that was well lit and their car was barely 50 metres away from a police post.

Expressing his disappointment with the law and order situation, Ashish claimed that he is pursuing the matter with the DCP and will be sending letters to President's office, Home Ministry, Chief Minister of Delhi and as well as the Prime Minister.