NEW DELHI: Noted historian and former Indian high commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago Muni Lal and his wife, Shiva, were beaten to death by a gang of robbers at their residence near Delhi on Monday night.
Muni Lal was the father of Akash Lal, the national cricket selector, who was away in Bombay at the time of the incident, PTI reports.
Police said some unidentified robbers broke into their house in Noida, on the outskirts of Delhi, and attacked the septuagenarian couple and their grandson with clubs and iron rods. Their grandson, 18-year-old, Arsh, was rushed to all-India Institute of Medical Sciences, where doctors discharged him after putting stitches on his wounds,
Police officer Mukesh Shukla said the police came to know of the incident at 0500 hours on Tuesday when Arsh informed the police. The incident had occurred at about 2330 hours on Monday night, he said.
Shukla said preliminary Investigations revealed that the robbers probably belonged to a “notorious criminal tribe outside Delhi, which launched sudden attacks on inmates of a house and then loot the property”. He said Lal’s house was badly ransacked and the police were yet to determine the amount of valuables taken away by the gang.
Lal’s second son, Jeevak Lal, is settled in the United States.
Article extracted from this publication >> January 19, 1990
