Two Korean women robbed at gun point in UP

MEERUT - Unidentified armed robbers abducted two South Korean women along with their driver and freed them on the highway to Haridwar in Uttar Pradesh after taking away their cash and other possessions early Tuesday morning, police said.

The incident occurred in the wee hours Tuesday on the highway near Meerut under Kankarkhera police station. The women were on their to Haridwar.

According to police, Lee Jung Tee alias Janki (45) and her daughter Lumin Harda alias Nirmala (25), both students at Dev Shanskrit Viswavidyalay at Shanti Kunj in Haridwar, landed at Delhi airport at 2.30 a.m. Tuesday.

They had called their Haridwar-based hotel Khanna Palace to send a cab to the airport. At about 4.00 a.m. when they were proceeding to Haridwar, a four-member gang in a car overtook them and forced them to stop.

Three of the gang barged into the women’s car and asked the driver at gun point to drive to a park in Pawali Khas and robbed the women of their Rs.10,000 in cash, two gold chains and some foreign currency, said Meerut City Police Superintendent Prabal Pratap Singh.

The robbers also took Rs.500 from the cab driver Dharmendra and fled the spot leaving the victims at Pawali village, about a kilometre from the highway.

The women called the university secretary in Haridwar, who arranged their rescue from the isolated place through a local contact and Kankarkhera police station.

Lee is an MA final year student while her daughter Lumin is pursuing a degree course in Hindi and Sanskrit.