In a novel case of robbery reported from Ahmedabad district of Gujarat, 3 armed men robbed an engineering student by forcing him to transfer Rs 10,000 through Unified Payments Interface (UPI) mode at knifepoint.
On Thursday, Mohammad Maaz, a 21-year-old student, filed a complaint at Ellisbridge police station. Maaz is a fourth-year engineering student at LD Engineering College.
Maaz was also forced to call his friends and ask them to send Rs 2,000 via UPI by the three robbers. According to a report, the robbery took place on Wednesday near Pritamnagar in Ellisbridge.
“I stopped my scooter near Pritamnagar at around 2pm on Wednesday to read a mobile message. At this time, a man approached me and asked what I was doing on the phone,” Maaz, a resident of Lunawada in Panchmahal, stated in his police complaint.
To avoid the man, Maaz drove his scooter further and again stopped to see his phone. At this point, the accused along with two other accomplices approached the victim and put a knife at his neck demanding money.
The accused inquired about the amount of money in the student’s account, to which he replied that he only had Rs 6,000. The accused then forced Maaz to use Google Pay to transfer the funds into their account.
The accused then told Maaz that he needed to call two of his friends and ask for money, claiming that there was an emergency. After that, his friends transferred Rs 4,000 to the robbers’ phone number.