SARBHANG

September 16, 2009

About six miscreants armed with Khanduwas, home-made guns,robbed the house of Man Bahadur Rai and Suk Bahadur Rai at Toskorling (Toribari), under Dekiling Gewog, on 14 September , at around 10 pm. The village is about 16 km away from the nearest police station.

Parti Maya Gurung, who runs a clothing shop in Phuentsholing had kept 78-year-old Man Bahadur Rai and his brother Suk Bahadur Rai, 64, to look after her land and the house.

According to Suk Baha dur, after having dinner, he was going off to sleep in the room adjacent to the kitchen, when some six miscreants at tacked him. They robbed the inmates mostly of household items such as blankets, pots, rice cooker, along with a mo bile phone, Nu 100 from Suk Bahadur Rai and a live chicken.

They left one striped gho outside the house and police are trying to verify if that belongs to another man the gang had robbed earlier.

The house is located at the end of the village, about 150 metres from the border. It likely that the miscreants had entered from Katoury Khola and exited from the same route .

Among the six miscreants, four were armed with Khan duwas. After they left the place, Suk Bahadur and his brother went to their neigh bour Damber Singh Gurung to inform him of the incident. Gurung later informed the gup.

However, the robbers, who are possibly from across the border, did not injure anyone. The Seema Suraksha Bal, and Indian security agency along the border were in formed, and the case is under investigation, police said.

source: Bhutan today