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Bengaluru: Hennur police on Friday arrested a 39-year-old habitual offender for brutally attacking a cab driver and fleeing with his taxi in Hegde Nagar.
The arrested is Mansoor Dhoon, a resident of Queen’s Road. He was tracked down based on technical evidence.
A senior police officer said that on Thursday night, Mansoor had hired a cab from Mysuru and offered the driver Pradeep V K, Rs 3,500 for the trip. After reaching Shivajinagar, he asked the driver to proceed to Hegde Nagar, claiming he needed to collect money from his sister.
Around 11.30 pm, after reaching an isolated spot Mansoor allegedly attacked Pradeep with a knife brutally and snatched his mobile phone, before fleeing in the cab. The injured Pradeep managed to seek help from passersby and was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. Soon after recovering he filed a case and police tracked down Mansoor, a habitual offender with a history of drug peddling. Cases had been booked against him in nine police stations across the city.
The police recovered the cab which was abandoned near Victoria Hospital.