{"id":27344,"date":"2018-09-25T11:40:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T10:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=27344"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T10:40:06","slug":"labour-councillor-injured-during-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/25\/labour-councillor-injured-during-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Councillor Injured During Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Councillor for Soho and Jewllery Quarter, Chaman Lal and his wife were victims injured in their own shop during a robbery on Sandwell Road, Handsworth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Labour councillor and his wife were hospitalised after being allegedly attacked with a knife while working at their fruit and veg Uplands Fruit shop on Sunday 23 September. He and his wife were both taken to hospital by ambulance with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after the incident, West Midlands Police confirmed that a man and a woman had been arrested in connection with the armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The councillor&#8217;s son, Bal, had been offering a \u00a31,000 reward to anyone who can supply information to identify those responsible.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from West Midlands Police read: &#8220;Police have this evening (Sunday 23 September) arrested a man and woman in connection with an armed robbery at a shop in Handsworth this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two people who work at the store in Sandwell Road were threatened and attacked with a knife at around 12.15pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They both sustained minor injuries and were taken in ambulance for hospital treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A 45-year-old man and woman aged 33 have been arrested on suspicion of robbery and been taken into police custody for questioning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Gemma Currie, from Force CID, said: &#8220;We don\u2019t underestimate how distressing this would have been for the two victims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have managed to quickly identify and arrest two suspects who will now be questioned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Enquiries continue and anyone with information is asked to contact police via Live Chat at west-midlands.police.uk between 8am to midnight, call 101 anytime or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. Please quote log number 1084 of 23\/09\/2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Councillor for Soho and Jewllery Quarter, Chaman Lal and his wife were victims injured in their own shop during a robbery on Sandwell Road, Handsworth. Labour councillor and his wife were hospitalised after being allegedly attacked with a knife while working at their fruit and veg Uplands Fruit shop on Sunday 23 September. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112],"tags":[1540,1407,1538,1539,1356],"class_list":["post-27344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-detective-inspector-gemma-currie","tag-handsworth","tag-labour-councillor","tag-sandwell-road","tag-west-midlands-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}