Vehicle stolen in G Noida, 3 booked

GREATER NOIDA: Three persons were booked for allegedly snatching a cab from a driver in Greater Noida on Sunday evening.

Police identified the victim as Buddu Khan, a native of Bulandshahr, is a resident of Krishna Nagar housing complex in Greater Noida West.

He drove the car and was linked with an app-based cab aggregator in the National Capital Region (NCR).

He said that around 5pm on Monday, he was hired from Tigri roundabout to Greater Noida’s Tilapta.

“I was in Greater Noida West at that time. When I arrived at the pickup point in my Maruti Suzuki Ertiga, two persons boarded and asked me to drive to Tilapta. The suspects asked me to stop on the way and picked up an accomplice. When we reached the destination the three persons again asked me to drive to Dadri’s Rupwas village. On reaching that village, the suspects suddenly tried to choke me with a rope around my neck. I tried to raise an alarm... I somehow manage to evade their grip, opened the door and exit,” Khan said.

One suspect immediately moved to the driver’s seat and fled with the car, he added. The victim said he lost two mobile phones and ₹7,900 kept in the car. With the help of a passerby, Khan said, he informed police about the incident.

Pradeep Tripathi, station house officer (SHO), Dadri police station, said a case has been registered against the unidentified suspects under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 392 (robbery). “We have launched a search to arrest the suspects,” he said.