HYDERABAD: In a re-run of the robbery reported at Masab Tank two days ago, four car-borne miscreants took away Rs. 72,000 from a fruit merchant at Chilakalguda on Saturday midnight.

The trader, Rawoof, was returning to his house in Warasiguda on a moped while another merchant Khaleel and a worker Tajuddin accompanied him on a scooter. As they reached Warasiguda, the miscreants intercepted their vehicles.

Even before the trader could react, the miscreants, brandishing swords, asked him to part with the money or get killed. A terrified Rawoof then took out the cloth bag containing Rs. 72,000 from the scooter compartment and hurled it at Khaleel asking the latter to take it away.

Bag snatched

"Before Khaleel responded, one of the miscreants rushed in, snatched the bag and sped away in the car along with his accomplices," Gopalapuram ACP Mohd Tajuddin said. The offenders were in the 25-30 age group and spoke in Telugu and Hindi.

The police said they were not sure if it was the same gang that robbed a stockbroker Shahnawaz of Rs. 4,500 after attacking him with knives at Masab Tank on Friday night. "It is also not yet confirmed if the robbers knew about the movements of the fruit merchant or they chanced upon him," the ACP said.

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