NT Reporter
Vasco
Sagar Nayak, whose house in Baina dacoits struck on Tuesday and who sustained severe head injuries in the incident, said that he pretended to be unconscious to escape further blows from the criminals.
After being discharged from the GMC, Nayak
is staying at his brother’s
flat in Chamundi Arcade, where the incident occurred, but is reluctant to return to his own home out of fear.
Speaking to the media for the first time since the incident, Nayak on Friday said that the entire flat was secured with locks and grills. However, it was only the kitchen window that had no grills, because his aged mother-in-law would sometime not be able to open door and this passage. This became the gateway for the dacoits.
The attackers wore pharmacy masks to cover their faces and used helmets belonging to members of the colony, he said.
“That night, soon after the incident, while the dacoits were still in the building, we woke everybody up. In fact, the police were in the flat within 10–15 minutes. Around two or three patrolling vehicles reached here within no time. However, if the police had been more aggressive in hunting the robbers, they would have been nabbed.”
He said that more
time was spent reviewing CCTV footage, which he
believes allowed the dacoits to escape.
“I had gone to sleep early, by 11 pm. By 2 am they were in our flat. They first entered the bedroom of my mother-in-law and threw her down. I woke up to the screams of my daughter and wife.
The moment I got up, they started hitting me with iron rods. While we shouted for help, they beat us even more. One man grabbed me and started cutting my hand with a blade.”
When the intruders demanded the keys, Nayak told his wife, Harsha, not to hand them over, and the attackers assaulted the family further.
After ransacking the wardrobes, the dacoits found the locker, asked for the keys, and fled with gold, cash and silver.
