A 31-year-old chef at a five-star hotel in Agra was allegedly robbed of money and valuables in an autorickshaw in the early hours of Monday.
The incident befell when Lalit Kumar Singh arrived by bus at Noida’s sector 37 from Agra at 2.30am on Monday, mentioned police. From there, he took an auto and reached Noida’s sector 62, mentioned police. Then he took one other auto to take him to Vijay Nagar in Ghaziabad, mentioned law enforcement officials.
“Nonetheless, as a substitute of going to Vijay Nagar, the driving force took the auto in direction of Sajwan Nagar and stopped beneath a flyover. There, he overpowered me with the assistance of my co-passengers and so they held me hostage. They robbed me of ₹14,800 in money. In addition they took my different valuables, together with my cellphone, and left me there, after taking my cellphone’s password and my on-line pockets password,” Singh mentioned in his grievance to the police.
Based mostly on the grievance, the police registered a primary info report below Indian Penal Code Part 392 (theft) at Vijay Nagar police station towards the unidentified auto driver and his unidentified accomplices, who posed as passengers. Noida’s sector 62 and Vijay Nagar in Ghaziabad are linked by nationwide freeway 9.
“We’ve got fashioned a number of groups to hint the auto driver and his accomplices, who posed as passengers. We’re additionally making an attempt to hint the suspects, who might be a part of gangs which carried out comparable robberies on nationwide freeway 9 whereas choosing passengers from sector 62,” mentioned Anshu Jain, assistant commissioner of police (metropolis 1).