Criminals target two car drivers in Pune

PUNE: A car driver was robbed of cash, cellphone and two gold rings in Narhe, while another was robbed of his vehicle and valuables by a carjacker in Dattawadi on Thursday.
In the first incident, three bike-borne men robbed car driver Mahadev Jadhav (40) of cash, cellphone and two gold rings, collectively valued at Rs47,000, late on Thursday night. “The suspects intercepted Jhadav’s car on the premises of his residential complex in Narhe and forced him to alight.One of the men slashed his forearm with a sharp weapon before fleeing with his valuables,” an officer from the Sinhagad Road police said.
In the other incident, a man robbed car driver Ismail Shaikh (44) at a knife point and fled with his vehicle and other valuables together worth Rs1.62 lakh. “A man boarded Shaikh’s car near Dandekar bridge around 3pm on Thursday and asked him to drive towards the Panshet dam. After they reached near Khanapur, the man pulled a knife and robbed Shaikh of cellphone and Rs10,000 before fleeing with the car,” sub-inspector KD Sankpal of the Dattawadi police said.