Cyber City GM robbed. Laptop safe
By Nitin Paul

Armed goons waylaid an executive of a multi national media consultancy firm, snatched his belongings  including ATM cards, dumped him gagged and handcuffed before speeding away with his Honda car. Ironically, the goons forced the executive Chirantan Chandran to halt his car at an unmanned police barricade and then forced him to drive to the ATM kiosk at gunpoint. 

The criminals then forced him to withdraw cash and then dumped him at a lonely spot.  However, the goons did not assault the executive and left behind his mobile phone set and his laptop. 

The incident occurred at 10.30 pm when Chandran who works with Mindshare as General Manager, was on his way back home in his Honda City car. As the car of this highly respected manager slowed down at the police barricades where no policemen were present, all of a sudden an armed man emerged from the side of the car and directed him to slow down while three others forced their way into the car. The goons ‘advised’ the executive not to act smart and follow what he was told. Chandran was first taken to the State Bank of India ATM where the goons withdrew Rs. 20,000 using his password. After this, the goons took him to the ICICI ATM where the card did not work. However, the goons snatched his golden chain, cash and wrist watch.

Mindshare offices are located at Tower A, Building No. 9, DLF Cyber city, Phase 3, Gurgaon.  Mindshare has worked on a number of high profile campaigns in India including ones for Telecom carrier Virgin Mobile and Motorola.

The goons took out the Sim card of his mobile phone and returned it to him.  They also did not touch the laptop. After dumping him gagged and handcuffed in village Behrampur the goons sped away with his Honda City car (WB 02 U 7496). Chandran took about ten minutes to cut the tapes by rubbing against the stones and freed himself. He managed to inform his family using the phone of a farmhouse owner.