2 cabbies rob passenger at knifepoint in Mohali, held

Mohali, December 14

The police have arrested two taxi drivers for allegedly robbing a Kerala native of Rs80,000 and a mobile phone at knifepoint on December 10.

The duo, identified as Zubair and Zirakpur resident Mohit Sharma, alias Aman, have been booked under Sections 379-B, 395 and 34 of the IPC at the Sohana police station.

The victim, who had come to Morinda for a hair transplant procedure, had hired a taxi from the airport to return to Delhi after he could not take the flight. The driver of the car asked him to sit in the front seat and later called his accomplice, who also boarded the taxi.

The duo, along with the victim, kept roaming in the Mohali area for close to two hours on one pretext or the other. Later, one of the taxi drivers looted the passenger of his cash and mobile phone at knifepoint, pushed him out from the moving car and fled the spot. The duo was produced in the court and sent to three-day police custody. — TNS

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