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Ola cab driver stabbed to death in Mohali market

Hindustan Times | By, Sas Nagar
Jun 28, 2016 06:35 PM IST

A 44-year-old driver from Rajpura, working with Ola Cabs, was murdered on Sunday night in the Phase 5 market in SAS Nagar. Police say the victim, Manoj Kumar, was stabbed in the neck in the cab — a Tata Indica — and suspect personal enmity to be behind the murder.

A 44-year-old driver from Rajpura, working with Ola Cabs, was murdered on Sunday night in the Phase-5 market in SAS Nagar. Police say the victim, Manoj Kumar, was stabbed in the neck in the cab — a Tata Indica — and suspect personal enmity to be behind the murder. Manoj had come to drop passengers, though it is not sure if they were the ones who stabbed him, the police have claimed. They add that the passengers had not been hired through Ola.

Manoj Kumar(Gurminder Singh/HT Photo)
Manoj Kumar(Gurminder Singh/HT Photo)

The police said that Kumar, who had started working with OLA about six months ago, could have been attacked after he demanded money for a personal ride that he might have picked up. No one seems to have seen the miscreant (s) fleeing from the spot.

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His wallet, with about Rs 5,000 was found untouched.

The previous Ola passengers that Kumar picked up were from Sector 22, Chandigarh and he had dropped them in Phase 4. Phone locations then put him in Phase 5. Police claim that Kumar used to sleep in the cab and rarely went to Rajpura.

VICTIM CRIED FOR HELP

Even after being stabbed, Kumar was able to call out for help and the cry was heard by the watchman of the market.

Hearing the cries of “Save me, I have been stabbed,” the watchman informed the police. However, witness say that in desperation to get help, Kumar even drove about a few metre to the nearest traffic signal, all the time crying out for help. He even called up the police from his own number.

By the time, a Police Control Room (PCR) van reached the Phase-5 market, Kumar was struggling for breath and by the time the police rushed him to the civil hospital in Phase 6 — barely a 5-minute drive — he was declared brought dead. “There was blood all over the cab. We tried to stop the bleeding, but failed,” said a cop.

The doctors recorded excessive loss of blood due to injury as the cause of Kumar’s death. Police sources claim that there was a distinct possibility that more than one assailant was involved. Kumar is survived by wife and three children. After the post-mortem, the body was handed over to the family.

SSP Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said, “We are trying to locate the areas that Manoj visited in the hours leading up to his murder. We have also launched a search for passengers that were last picked up by him.”

Kumar had a 4-inch deep wound at the centre of his neck and it was his driving licence that helped police identify him. His kin were traced through his mobile. On a complaint from Jawaharlal, the brotherin-law of the victim, who is a resident of Palsora village in Chandigarh, an unidentified person was booked under Section 302 (murder) of the IPC at the Phase-1 police station.

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