ALIGARH: Three persons were injured today when armed bandits looted cash and valuables worth Rs five lakh rupees from a Delhi-bound private tourist bus on the Yamuna Expressway, police said.
The incident occurred near Tappal when the bus took a halt after one of its tyres got punctured and five armed men forced their way inside the bus, which was on its way to Lucknow from Delhi, they said.
When some of the passengers resisted, the miscreants opened fire in which three persons, identified as Puran, Raj Singh and Vivek Yadav, were injured, police said.
The injured persons were rushed to a hospital in adjoining Mathura district, they said, adding that all were out of danger and recovering from pellet injuries.
The miscreants are said to have looted cash and valuables worth Rs five lakh rupees, police said.
The police have denied media reports that two women were abducted from the bus and gang raped in a nearby farmhouse, belonging to a retired Police officer from Himachal Pradesh.
SSP Rajesh Pandey told PTI that reports of gang rape were false.
According to the police that before looting the bus, the five armed robbers who were in an inebriated state, made their way inside an incomplete bungalow of a retired Police officer.
They then beat up the staff and some of the construction labourers, including 2 women, who were there.
These two women have been brought to the Aligarh women's hospital where they were being medically examined following the allegations of gang rape.
Pandey said both the women have denied that they were sexually assaulted. He said the medical report was awaited but prima facie there was no evidence of gang rape.