A 23-year-old man was robbed of his scooter and mobile phone at knife point by two scooter borne miscreants at Central library under Talaiya police station area on Saturday.
According to the police, the victim Deepak Sahu was robbed on his way to home by two scooter borne miscreants in the evening on Saturday.
Police said that the robberies are done with new tricks in the city which has been observed in the past few months. This is new trick to threaten and hit the victim and after the victim fells along with two wheeler vehicle and valuables are robbed at knife point.
The victim works as vegetable seller in Kolar area and after selling vegetables he was on his way to home at Futamakbara and when he reached near Central library area he was robbed by the miscreants.
The victim is his complaint stated that the two scooter borne miscreants were on a black coloured Honda Activa Scooter and hit his scooter head-on and after he fell they started to abuse him and took the keys of the scooter and when the accused took his mobile phone to call his friend the accused snatched the mobile phone and later threatened him at knife point and escaped the spot with the scooter bearing registration number MP04SW5440.
The police have registered a case under section 392 of the IPC and have started further investigation. The police have started to investigate the CCTV footages of the cameras installed in the nearby area.