Nishatpura police have nabbed three miscreants who robbed a 28-year-old auto-rickshaw driver of Rs 2,000 at a knife-point near liquor shop in Nishatpura area late in the night on Sunday.
Police said that the victim Aaftab Ansari was robbed by three miscreants at knife point and escaped the spot.
The victim approached the police and lodged a complaint of robbery stating that after dropping passengers in Nishatpura area when he reached liquor shop three miscreants signaled to stop him and assuming the three as passengers and wanted to hire auto-rickshaw he stopped the vehicle and as soon as the victim stopped the vehicle the miscreants pulled him from the auto rickshaw and took kept a know at his neck and robbed of his Rs 2000 and escaped the spot. The victim raised alert but at the area was deserted accused managed to escape.
After the preliminary investigation the police have registered a case under section 394 and 34 of the IPC and have started further investigation.
During the investigation police found that the three miscreants involved were Taufeeq, Shadab and Virendra and later nabbed them. The accused confessed that they have robbed the victim and told the police that at the time of the robbery they were in an inebriated state.
Police have recovered the knife used in the robbery and have started searching details of the three nabbed accused. The three have also confessed they have robbed the commuters in the past and used to spend the robbed money over liquor.