Mumbai Crime: 3 people attack walkers with chopper on Carter Road, held

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Three robbers attacked a 33-year-old event manager and two other women with a chopper, and fled with his mobile phone on Carter Road in Khar around 4.30 am on Tuesday. The trio was arrested later.

The women rushed to the victim's aide and were also attacked but they ducked and escaped without injury, stated a report in The Times of India.

The manager got five stitches on his hand.

Khar police nabbed the trio, all labourers, within 12 hours and booked them for armed robbery. The mobile has been recovered.

"As the women called for help, the robbers attacked them too, and tried to twist the hand of one of them, but she escaped as the men fled on noticing other walkers rushing to the spot," a police official said.

The robbers - Salim Firoz Idrisi (19), Kalam Mansoori (18) and Mohammed Wasim Saha (19) - will be produced in Bandra court on Wednesday. A police team from Bandra and Khar scanned a 1 km radius and caught Idrisi and Mansoori within 20 minutes of the attack. Saha was arrested from Baiganwadi in Shivaji Nagar on Tuesday evening.

"They had robbed a truck driver in Ghatkopar around 1 am before targeting the event manager," said Gajanan Kabdule, Khar police senior inspector.

"Beat Marshal Madhu Jadhav and the team, after collecting information from the spot, scanned an almost 1 km area and found the auto in which the three had sped away. The driver described the accused and the place they had gone to," police said.

Kabdule said that the accused had taken the auto from Carter Road after threatening the driver with the chopper. The police team also recovered Rs 2,000 and the truck driver's mobile. Police are checking if there is any case against them in Ghatkopar.