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LUDHIANA: Two masked miscreants robbed a scrap dealer of Rs 2 lakh after throwing chilli powder into his eyes in Industrial Area-B, near Miller Gunj, on Wednesday.
Jatinder Nagpal, 40, a resident of Basant Avenue, said in his police complaint, “Like every day, I reached my shop around 10am to open it. I was carrying a bag that contained about Rs 2 lakh. I kept the bag down to unlock the shop. At that time, two men on a motorcycle stopped near me. They asked me if a man named Billa worked there. When I told the duo I did not know him, one of them threw chilli powder into my eyes and escaped with the cash bag.”