Chennai: The City police on Friday arrested two men who tied up and robbed a man at knifepoint in Pallavaram on Wednesday.
Prem Kumar (36) and Sugan Raj (28) of Perungalathur, was arrested by Tambaram police for robbing a man of his mobile phone, wallet and two-wheeler at knifepoint. The incident took place on Saturday night by 11:30 pm, near Pallavaram.
According to police, the victim Prabhakaran (32), an IT staff from Nungambakkam, had gone to his friend’s house in Maraimalai Nagar on Saturday. When he was returning home on his two-wheeler, two men in an auto-rickshaw intercepted him near Irumbuliyur.
Police said they alleged that the auto’s brake was not working and requested him to drop them in Tambaram.
They parked their auto on the roadside after he accepted to drop them. In a few minutes, the men allegedly held a knife to his neck and robbed him of his mobile phone and purse. They then tied him to a tree on the roadside, and fled on his two-wheeler.
Passersby who noticed the man, rescued him and alerted the Tambaram police who registered a complaint and launched a search for the culprits. The police, however, later nabbed them with the help of CCTV footages recovered from the area.
Police recovered the mobile, two-wheeler and handed it over to the owner. Investigations are on.
