Cabbie stabbed to death for refusing ‘joyride’ to India Gate, 4 held

DCP Tiwari added, “Using a pivotal CCTV footage, combined with technical surveillance and human intelligence, the team successfully established the identity of the suspects. Subsequently, the prime accused, Imran aka Panwadi, was apprehended Investigation revealed that the group was celebrating Imran’s birthday and was on their way to India Gate for a night-out.”

He said, “Near the lavatory in Bhogal, they got into a verbal altercation with the victim, a cab driver, after he refused to ferry the group to India Gate.”

A police officer said that the altercation started when Imran was allegedly urinating near the cab when it was parked. He said that the accused turned towards him and started knocking on his cab’s window. When Kuldeep came out, the police officer said, he was asked by the group to go to India Gate for a ride.

“He refused to go, after which he was beaten by the men, all of them were drunk. When he still refused to drive, the group stabbed him brutally and threw his body in the bushes under the Barapullah flyover. After being arrested, the group initially tried to mislead the police by painting it as a road rage incident, claiming that the deceased had objected to one of them urinating, which started the fight,” the police officer claimed.

The accused then allegedly took the victim’s car with them around the Bhogal area.

Kuldeep, the police said, hails from Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. Accused Imran has three cases of theft already booked against him.

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