Three miscreants including a minor involved in attacking with a sharp-edged weapon and robbing a suitcase carrying cash at Shivaji Nagar were nabbed by police.
With the arrest of these three a total of five miscreants have been nabbed said Addl SP Zone II Dinesh Kaushal while speaking with media persons here on Thursday.
He said that the victim a 62-year-old employee of a pathology lab was attacked in his nose with sharp-edged weapon and escaped with suitcase carrying cash.
Two of the accused were nabbed earlier who were identified as Saalam Khan (25) of Banganga and Kartik Rajput (19) of Ratibad while third accused Anas Khan managed to escape with the briefcase carrying cash.
Later in the investigation, it was found that apart from Anas two more miscreants were also involved in the crime were nabbed during the investigation.
The nabbed were identified as Vinod Madopia(19) and Anas Khan (20) and a minor.
Addl SP Kaushal said that the accused have confessed a robbery from an auto-rickshaw driver and threatening to extort Rs 20 lakh in Kamla Nagar area over phone.
The earlier nabbed Saalam and Anas have worked as drivers for Dr Rajesh Mehra and were aware of his routine carrying cash at the end of the day and before committing crime they have recce the area and later planned the crime.
The injured attacked was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was provided primary treatment and is reportedly stable.
Police said that the victim Shosmani Pathak was robbed and attacked while he was trying to keep briefcase carrying and documents in car owned by Dr Rajesh Mehra who runs Venus Mri & Mdct Centre Pvt Ltd at Shivaji Nagar.