Techie abducted, assaulted and robbed by 3 men
NEW DELHI: A software engineer working in Noida was on Friday kidnapped, thrashed and robbed by three near Dhaula Kuan, police said.
Investigators said that the crime took place on a dark stretch of Ridge Road, a few hundred metres from south Delhi’s Dhaula Kuan. The three accused first allegedly rammed the car of the victim with their twowheeler in order to force him out of his vehicle.
The victim has been identified as 28-year-old Divesh Pahuja, a resident of central Delhi’s New Rajender Nagar.
NEW DELHI: A software engineer working in Noida was on Friday kidnapped, thrashed and robbed by three youths travelling on an ungeared vehicle near Dhaula Kuan, police said.
Investigators said that the crime took place on a dark stretch of Ridge Road, a few hundred metres from south Delhi’s Dhaula Kuan. The three accused first allegedly rammed the car of the victim with their twowheeler, in order to make him stop and get him out of his vehicle.
The victim, identified as 28-year-old Divesh Pahuja, a resident of central Delhi’s New Rajender Nagar, has received multiple injuries to his head due to the assault carried out by the three men, one of who even beat him up with a pistol butt .
After holding him captive in his own car, the robbers drove the engineer to an ATM in west Delhi’s Mayapuri, where they forced him to withdraw money before fleeing. The ordeal lasted for almost an hour before the men let him go free in Naraina.
Milind Dumbere, DCP (southwest), said a case of causing hurt during robbery has been registered at Delhi Cantonment police station and kidnapping charges would be added soon. There was no breakthrough in the case at the time of filing this report.
Pahuja lives with his family in central Delhi’s New Rajender Nagar and works with a multinational firm in Noida Sector 62. “Usually I drive back home via NH-24, Pragati Maidan and Ashoka Road. But on Friday, Google Maps showed a traffic jam in central Delhi and I opted to choose the DND-Ring RoadDhaula Kuan route instead,” said Pahuja.
He said he had just crossed Dhaula Kuan and was on the Ridge Road around 10pm when a black scooter rammed his i20 car from behind. “I stopped my car and came out to see who had caused the accident and spotted the three youths riding an ungeared vehicle,” said Pahuja.
When Pahuja tried getting back in his car, the men suddenly attacked him. While two of the men pushed him into the rear seat of his car, one suspect stayed behind on the scooter. “One person held a pistol while the other began driving my car. The robber sitting next to me began hitting my head with the pistol butt. They wanted me to part with my wallet,” alleged Pahuja.