Gurgaon: The police have damaged the gang of the hijacker and arrested his three members in the city.
The gang was used to rent a taxi for an intercity trip and seize cars in isolated places in Gunpoint.
It was active in NH-8 and mainly targeted taxi drivers.
The people arrested had been identified as Sagar Residen Pataudi, Charchi Dadri Resident Gaurav and Arvind from Jatoli.
The police said they grabbed the car from the taxi driver last week.
Complainants, Dinesh Singh, works with application-based taxi aggregators in Jaipur.
On August 29, Dinesh received a booking from Jaipur to the bus standing in Gurgaon.
“I went to the pickup and the three young men took a taxi.
I left Jaipur around 11pm and reached Pachgaon around 2am,” he said.
The youth asked the driver to stop the taxi to buy a bottle of water.
“He stopped and the men went down, returned with a water bottle.
I just started driving when the two men sat in the back seat reaching for my neck.
They hit me and pulled me towards them with gunpools.
One Trio starts driving.
I am Crying to ask for help, but they threatened to kill me, “Dinesh said, added that they grabbed his wallet and cellphone and threw it on the service track, driving by car.
With the help of a pedestrian, Dinesh informs the police and FIR submitted to the men below it 379B (grabbing weapons), 506 (criminal intimidation), 323 (attack) and 34 (general intentions) IPC, regardless of the relevant part of the ARM acting on Manbar police station.
The police began scanning CCTV recordings and captured the trio of various parts of the city on Wednesday.
ACP (crime) Preet Pal Sangwan said they tried to find out how many crimes they had done.
“We have recovered a stolen taxi and weapons used in crime,” ACP said.
On August 29, a resident of 75-year-old Mapsko Royale Ville on his way to the gas station to examine the tire pressure of his car allegedly ambushed by four men in sector 82 and was held hostage to Dadri in Greater Noida, where they pushed him out, stole cellphones And cash and then go by vehicle.
After the 10-hour brave, retired government officials, Om Prakash Dhanda, finally walked back home, thank you to a young man who dropped him in Bulandshahr, from where he took a taxi.
In January, three masked men ambushed a man in Gurgaon-Faridabad Road, holding him a hostage for a while and struggled before throwing it with a quiet stretch near Badshapur and escaping with his employer Swift Dzire.
A 24-year-old software engineer died last November after being shot by a hijacker on the South Peripheral Road.
The police record stated that a total of 4,084 cases of vehicle theft, including armed piracy, was reported in 2019, while the number fell to 2,658 in 2020.
According to the police, around 3,000 cases of piracy were reported at Gurgaon until now this year.