The Police in Bengaluru, tracked down a Nigerian student, identified as Ibrahim Abdul Mulallabi (33), studying BBM in a college at Yelahanka who allegedly attacked a cab driver at Bilekahalli, off Bannerghatta Road, and subsequently drove away in his car.
According to the Hindu, the student who lives with a friend in K.S. Layout visa had expired in January 2016. It also added that for three hours, the night patrol police and their colleagues in the traffic police drove the length and breadth of Bengaluru trying to track the ‘runaway car’.
Hitendra, additional commissioner (Traffic) said, “Traffic is very thin during the early morning hours, which might have averted a major tragedy.”
The reports noted that It began around 2.20 am on Saturday when the driver, Venkatesh (40), a resident of Thanisandra, was ‘attending to the call of nature’ by the roadside at Bilekahalli signal.
”A youth approached me from behind and asked for the car keys. He seemed drunk. When I refused, he kicked me in the abdomen, snatched the keys and fled with the car,” said Venkatesh, who alerted his cab company MegaCabs, who in turn called the police.
”The cab is equipped with a GPS system, which helped the cops track the vehicle across the city. The youth was crisscrossing the city. From Bannerghatta Road, he went to Shivajinagar and then to Hennur.
”From Hennur, he began heading towards Electronics City. We rushed to the toll gate on Hosur Road, blocked the car and arrested him around 5.30 am,” said Inspector B.K. Shekhar Mico Layout Police Station, who led the police team.
”The youth seemed to have suspected that he was being trailed because he disconnected the GPS system minutes before he was stopped at the toll gate. Our hunch that he would go to that particular spot paid off,” Mr. Shekhar said.
As the cops tried apprehending the student, he came out shouting, “No Harm. I Love India.”
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