Property looted from US citizen's farm house

Varanasi, Oct 8 (UNI) A mob of villagers allegedly stormed into a farmhouse belonging to a US citizen in the Jansa area here today and decamped with property worth Rs one lakh.

Police said here that James L Hethrinton, an interior decorator from Cansas City, US started a restaurant in the Shivala area of the city in 1997. Later, in 2000, he built a farm-house on a piece of land owned by his restaurant partner Pankaj Mishra in Danupur village under Jansa police station.

The farmhouse was visited by Mr Hethrinton and his air hostess wife Monica during winters and in their absence taken care off by the couple's three foster sons.

One of the three alleged foster sons, Babloo Vishwakarma claimed that Mr Hethrinton, some days back had sent a letter from Nepal, authorising them to sell some of the domestic articles in the farm-house to local public.

''In pursuance with the directions in the letter, we had sold articles worth Rs 60,000 till yesterday and when we were merchendising some other articles this morning, a mob from neighbouring Bidkuri village stormed into the farm-house and looted property worth Rs one lakh, including a television set and electric invertor,'' Babloo alleged.

Station Officer (Jansa Police Station) Ram Bali Yadav who reached the spot in the evening said that investigations were on in the matter and those guilty will be brought to book shortly.

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