5 arrested for robbing driver, stealing cab

Five men have been arrested for allegedly robbing an Ola driver and dumping him in a jungle before fleeing with his cab, the police said today.
They said, the men booked an Ola cab from GTB Nagar metro station to Bakhtawar Pur on July 28.
En route to the destination, the occupants got down from the cab saying they had to attend nature's call and overpowered driver Dharmender, police said.
They tied his hands, feet and face with adhesive tape and left him in Kushak jungle and fled with the cab. Dharmender later freed himself and informed the police.
Five men -- Rajesh Kumar Mehta (34), Puneet (32), Deepak (28), Rajesh Sharma (40), and Neeraj Sharma (30), were arrested yesterday, said Milind Mahadeo Dumbere, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest).

All of them were facing a financial crunch and were in debt. They had hatched a conspiracy to earn a quick buck by robbing Ola cabs and disposing the robbed cabs as private vehicles, said the DCP. But before they could do so, they were nabbed.

Two of the accused had worked with the cab aggregator earlier but were now jobless.
In order to ensure that they could not be traced, the accused did not book the cab from their mobile phones.
Mehta purchased an old mobile phone from a village shop and one of the other accused arranged a SIM registered in someone else's name from a mobile repair shop, said the DCP.

They then booked the cab and carried out their plan.
After the case was lodged, the police traced the man in whose name the SIM was registered. He told police about the mobile repair shop and the police questioned its owner, said another officer.
He told police that one of the accused had given him a phone to repair but had returned after a couple of days to take it back.
He said the accused might have picked up a SIM from his drawer while taking back his phone, the police said.
The shop owner told police that one of the accused lived nearby.

It was found that the man had been missing from his home since the day of the incident. After questioning locals and family members of the accused, the five men were traced and arrested.
One of the accused is an MBA in finance and deals in insurance policies.