41-year-old Mumbai based Journalist was looted on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway at gunpoint by an unidentified person who was traveling in a tourist car. The victim Girish Nikam is a resident of Sector 12 in Kharghar and works as an Anchor in Marathi media. A case of robbery has been registered with the Kalamboli police station in Mumbai against an unidentified person. In a similar modus, this is the fourth incident that has taken place on the Expressway.

Girish was visiting Pune on a Monday morning for his treatment and later left for Swargate to catch the Kharghar bound state transport bus as his treatment was over. But he didn’t get resort to any transport until 10 pm when an unidentified person plying as a tourist and had tourist cars approached him as it was drizzling.