Pune: Cab driver told friends to thrash an IT company staffer, they attacked another techie waiting for fiancee

Police said the complainant works with an IT company in Hinjewadi. His fiancee works at another IT company at Amar Tech Centre on the Airport Road in Viman Nagar.

As stated in the FIR, the complainant went to the Amar Tech Centre around 1.45 am to pick up his fiancee. While he was waiting for her on his two-wheeler, three armed men reached the spot on a motorcycle. Two of them launched an attack on the complainant with a sharp weapon, leaving him injured and unconscious at the spot.

His fiancée, along with people around the spot, rushed him to a hospital. A video of the incident captured by a CCTV camera installed at the crime scene went viral on social media.

The police got clues about the suspects from CCTV footage. Within a few hours, police arrested two suspects including Munde and Daliya from Hadapsar. Police said Munde has a previous criminal record.

The probe revealed that a friend of the assailants works as a cab driver for the IT company in Viman Nagar. The cab driver believed that an IT professional working at this company was having a love affair with a woman he liked. So, the cab driver had asked the assailants to thrash this IT professional.

Accordingly, the assailants kept waiting for their target outside the IT company in the early hours of Thursday. But he did not come. So, they got frustrated and allegedly attacked the complainant, who was waiting for his fiancee around 3.15 am.

Assistant police inspector Ravikant Nandanvar said the two accused have been arrested and the search for the cab driver is on. A court has remanded the two arrested accused to police custody till September 15.