Family held hostage in Gurgaon home

The family of a senior executive was held hostage by a group of armed robbers for over two hours in their house in an up-market colony close to the Delhi airport on Friday night. The stand-off came to an end after over 60 commandos of the Haryana police and robbers exchanged fire for over an hour, in which two of the robbers were killed.

According to witnesses, five men armed with weapons arrived at the Palam Vihar, Gurgaon residence of Anoop Choudhary, a general manager with a car company, at 9.30 on Friday night.

The five men overpowered Choudhary's son Ankur, who had just returned from work, at gunpoint and took away his car. Ankur's father, overhearing the commotion, called the police. Three men drove the car into a dead end of sector A and abandoned it along with their weapons.

"Ankur was parking his car when five robbers took the car away from him at gunpoint. Three of them got into the car whereas the other two got inside the house. The ones inside the house took Chaudhary and four others hostage, "said Anil Dhawan, DCP Crime, Gurgaon.

Meanwhile, the other two assailants rushed into the house and took all the five family members hostage who were inside the house. The hostages included Chaudhary, his wife, daughter and two relatives.

The hostages were rescued by eleven commandos who got into the house. After evacuating the family members, a gun battle took place in which 22 rounds were fired and both the robbers were shot dead.