Chennai: In a case of wicked irony, a staffer of the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) was robbed of his motorbike by a duo at knifepoint when he ventured to help out a woman supposedly robbed near the police commissioner’s office early Thursday morning.
Krishna Moorthy (33), a driver with the MTC, was on his way to work when he noticed a woman raising alarm near the YWCA bus stop on EVR Salai around 5. 30 am. “When I asked her what was wrong, she mentioned that her mobile phone was robbed and pointed at a man running,” Krishna Moorthy told DC.
The man then set off in his bike and intercepted the robber on Ritherdon road off EVR Salai. As he got off the bike and frisked the robber to return the mobile phone, the man had flashed a knife at him. Another man, meanwhile, took Krishna Moorthy’s bike and drove off along with the robber.
When the man returned to the bus stop, the woman was also not found following which he filed a complaint at Vepery police station. Police suspect it to be a case of attention diversion and the woman also to be hand in glove with robbers. “We are securing CCTV footage from the area and are trying to establish the identity,” a police officer said.
