A HISTORY-SHEETER armed with a pointy weapon attacked and robbed 9 individuals in several components of the town on Thursday. The robber, recognized as Omkar Vinod Masal alias Harshal Salim Shaikh (22), was lastly arrested by Hadapsar police.
According to police, the primary crime happened close to Akashwani on the Pune-Solapur Road, the place Omkar and his aide Ashish alias Guddu got here on a two-wheeler and intercepted a pedestrian Shyankar Dhaware round 10.30 pm. Omkar allegedly attacked Dhaware with a knife after which robbed his cellphone value Rs 8,000. Dhaware was injured whereas Omkar escaped from the spot. Later, Omkar and an aide robbed a cellphone value Rs 8,000 and money of Rs 3,000 from Ankit Bainwad at knife level in Hadapsar. The duo then allegedly attacked Sanjay Chavan with a knife and robbed money of Rs 500 at a close-by location. Chavan was injured within the incident. Around 11.40 pm, the robbers snatched a cellphone from auto-rickshaw driver Makrand Ghavate in Hadapsar.
