The silver ornaments and diamonds, being brought from Punjab, were robbed by two youth from near Alipur area on NH-1 of outer Delhi at around 1 am last night, police said.
"When Manish, a salesman with (jeweller Surendra) Gupta, along with two colleagues and driver, were returning from Punjab after taking jewellery from there, two unidentified youth waylaid their car on NH-1 near Khampur village and snatched bags containing silver and diamonds and fled the spot," Additional CP (Outer)Sanjay Kumar said.
On a tip off, a police team was sent to Narela this afternoon from where all the jewellery was recovered from the car abandoned by the robbers who managed to flee, another police officer said.