Police have registered a case against an unidentified auto-rickshaw driver and his associates for allegedly robbing a passenger at knife point. The passenger has been identified as Ganesh Pathak (35), a resident of Punawale. FIR On March 9 at Shivajinagar police station
Police said Pathak boarded the auto-rickshaw near Khuda Pul at around 5.10 am on March 6. Three more people were in the vehicle along with the auto-rickshaw driver. The driver told Pathak that he would drop him in the Deccan area. But after sometime, the driver and three associates allegedly robbed Pathak’s cell phone and Rs 500 at knife point.
Police have registered a case against unknown auto rickshaw driver and his three accomplices under sections 392, 504, 34 of IPC. In a similar incident, another auto-rickshaw driver and his associates robbed two college students at knife point near the railway gauge in Tuesday Peth area on March 6.
Meanwhile, an armed passenger allegedly threatened an auto-rickshaw driver and took away his vehicle on March 1. The driver lodged an FIR on Wednesday.