Truck driver assaulted & robbed, duo arrested

Pune: The Hinjewadi police on Monday arrested two men on the charge of assaulting and robbing a truck driver of Rs23,000.

Truck driver Jagdish Totare (27) of Ambegaon taluka sustained injuries as the duo hit him with a stone and threw an empty beer bottle at him. The incident occurred near Wakad bridge on Sunday morning. The duo, Nitin Awtade (35) of Wakad and Arbaz Shaikh (23) of Gahunje, have been arrested under section 394 (voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery) of the Indian Penal Code.

Totare said he was transporting sugar from Kolhapur to a factory in Manchar on Sunday morning. “Around 7am, I reached near Wakad bridge. I had to stop because a car was parked improperly. As the vehicles behind me started honking, I too began honking. The car was parked in such a manner that the entire road was blocked,” he said.

Totare said that two men stepped out of the car and one of them picked a stone and hurled it towards me. “The stone hit my righthand elbow as I evaded getting hit. Another of his accomplice hurled an empty beer bottle at me. When I got down, the duo hit me. They also robbed Rs23,000 from the truck’s cabin,” Totare said.

Uddhav Khade, assistant inspector, Hinjewadi police, said, “The two men were arrested early on Monday. We are verifying whether they have any criminal record.”


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