Gurgaon: A senior executive, working as a software engineer at Honda’s Tapukara plant, was robbed by four men, who offered him a lift in their car, from IFFCO Chowk on Saturday evening.
Kishore Bhara Tola (32) told police that he was offered lift by the gang around 7pm on Saturday after his company bus dropped him at IFFCO Chowk. As he was looking for transportation to reach his home in Vikaspuri, a Wagon-R — which had three passengers it — stopped near him. When he asked the driver if he could get a drop till Vikaspuri, the driver asked him to get inside the car.
“After travelling for around 5km, the driver took a U-turn near Shankar Chowk. When enquired why he had taken a U-turn, he said that he had to fill CNG in his car as it was running out of fuel. He then asked us to pay the fare in advance. As i took out my wallet, the two passengers sitting beside snatched it from my hand. As I raised my voice, they started thrashing me. That’s when I realised that all four present inside the car were a robbers,” Tola said.
The accused held him hostage inside the car for 2 hours and robbed him of his gold chain, gold ring, wallet, mobile phone, ATM and credit card. The accused allegedly asked him to reveal his ATM and credit card PIN or they would kill him. He was pushed out of the car near IFFCO Chowk.
Following the complaint, an FIR was registered under sections 379-B (snatching and use of force), 342 (wrongful confinement), 34 (common intention) of the IPC at Sector 18 police station on Sunday.