Travellers’ office staff allegedly assaulted passengers, forced them to buy tickets and transferred ₹2,800 online

NAGPUR: Ganeshpeth police have arrested two men for allegedly robbing five employees after an auto-rickshaw driver diverted them to a travel agency office instead of taking them to Nagpur railway station.

The incident occurred around 8 pm on November 6. The complainant, Manojkumar Shambhu Sah (28), originally from Bhagwanpur in Bihar and currently residing in Mukutban, Yavatmal district, works at Maxment Engineering Limited. He had arrived in Nagpur by bus along with four fellow employees and hired an auto-rickshaw from the bus stand to reach the railway station.

However, instead of taking them to the railway station, the auto-rickshaw driver allegedly drove them to the office of Prince Tour and Travels near Rahul Complex-2 at Jadhav Chowk, falling under Ganeshpeth police station limits.

There, the driver and three accomplices allegedly forced all five employees into the travel agency office and assaulted them. The accused also threatened to kill them and forcibly made them purchase travel tickets. They allegedly snatched ₹6,700 in cash from the victims and forced them to transfer another ₹2,800 online into one of the accused’s bank accounts.

Following the incident, Sah contacted the police helpline 112. A Ganeshpeth police team rushed to the spot and detained two suspects, identified as Amar Vijay Ingulwar (38), a resident of Karnalbagh, Ganeshpeth, and Sheikh Nurul Hasan Sheikh Murad Basha (27), a resident of Viratnagar, Bommanahalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Two other accused, identified as Khandya alias Gautam and another accomplice, managed to escape and are currently absconding.

Police registered an offence under Sections 309(4), 115(2), 351(3), 126(2) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The two arrested accused are being investigated, while efforts are underway to trace the absconding suspects.