Yamunanagar, June 20

An under training Army officer was robbed of his car at gunpoint near the district’s Bhambhauli village on Wednesday.Under training Lieutenant Bhanu Pratap (27) of Jagadhri had gone to Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh to attend his friend’s wedding on Tuesday night.The next day, he was to visit Chandigarh. He left from Saharanpur at 3.30 am. On the way, he stopped his car at a “dhaba” on the Jagadhri-Panchkula national highway near Bhambhauli village to take a nap inside his car.“After 15 minutes, a man knocked at the window of my car. I woke up and when I opened the window, a man pointed a pistol at me. Soon, two more persons joined him. They snatched the key of the car and my wallet,” Bhanu Pratap told The Tribune.He said the robbers came in Toyota Liva. “They left their car at the ‘dhaba’ and took away my i20 There was more than Rs10,000 ATM cards, a voter card, a PAN card and an Aadhaar card in my wallet,” Bhanu said.He said the robbers were between the 25 and 30 years. “Two of them were speaking Haryanvi and the third was speaking a local language.”Bhanu’s father Somesh Chauhan said Bhanu had joined the Army as a trainee Lieutenant on January 1, 2018. “He is undergoing training at Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. He came home on June 10 on leave.”Chhappar police station SHO Ramesh said Toyota Liva was robbed from Barwala in Panchkula district on April 16 and a case was registered at Barwala police station in that connection the next day.On Bhanu’s compliant, a case has been registered against unidentified persons under Sections 392 (robbery), 397 (robbery or dacoity with attempt to cause death) and the Arms Act at the Chhappar police station.