Mohali: Police Mohali claimed to have arrested the taxi driver and his accomplice to loot passengers at the knife point.
Both were accused produced in court on Tuesday and returned in police custody until December 16.
The arrested accusations have been identified as Mohammad Zuber, Burail and Mohit Sharma aka safe, a resident of Zirakpur.
The taxi driver robbed RS 80,000 passengers and cellphones.
The police said the victim, SWAT T K came to Morinda for a hair transplant and on December 10, he went to Chandigarh airport to ride a flight back to Kerala.
However, he could not get a ticket that day.
After that, he rented a taxi for Delhi and sat in the front seat.
On the way, the taxi driver made his accomplice sit in the back seat of the taxi.
After some time, the accomplices took out the knife and held him in the knifepoint, seizing him 80,000 Rs and his cellphone.
They drove him for two hours and then dropped it in a remote place.
The police have restored the Wagon R car used in crime.
During interrogation, it turned out that the defendant used to work as a taxi driver at an application-based company.
The complainant reached the Sohana police station and told the incident, after the police registered a case.