On Wednesday morning Bansal and his family members managed to free themselves and reported the matter to the police.

Locals, however, alleged that the police did not cooperate with Bansal in lodging the complaint. In protest of the incident, angry locals took to the streets, blocked traffic and staged a protest outside the police post and kept a police inspector hostage for an hour.

The inspector could be freed only after the assistant superintendent of police assured the protesters that action would be taken to nab the accused.

'We have registered a case of robbery and would soon solve the case. The problem arose when locals jammed traffic on the busy road leading to Delhi,' said circle officer Happy Guptan.