New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- Three armed assailants looted gold jewellery worth approximately Rs 60 lakh from a shop in the Kinari Bazar area of Chandni Chowk in Delhi on Wednesday.

The incident occurred at around 1:34 PM in Anar Wali Gali, a narrow lane within the busiest market in the national capital. According to the shop owner, Ashok Kumar Chaurasia, who has been in the jewellery trade for over 30 years, the shop was being managed by his son at the time of the robbery.

The robbery was executed with clinical precision. Eyewitness accounts and the victim's statement describe a terrifying sequence of events: Three men entered the shop and immediately struck the salesman on the head with a pistol butt. While one assailant neutralised the sale...