Beed, March 17 A group of armed robbers targeted two houses in the Kavadgaon village in the Beed district of Maharashtra, making off with valuables and cash worth over Rs 2.16 lakh, and brutally attacking a resident, police said on Tuesday.
The group of four to five armed men stormed the residences of Siddiq Shaikh and Yuvraj Kale in the early hours of Sunday.
They threatened the occupants of the houses into silence by threatening to kill them. When a local youth attempted to resist, he was attacked with an iron rod, leaving him seriously injured.
Police have launched a search operation.
This is the fourth major robbery in the area within just four months.
The investigation faces a significant hurdle as the village lacks CCTV surveillance. Villagers and the Gram Panchayat have now intensified their demands for the administration to install security cameras at strategic points to deter future crimes.