Pune: A man attempted to murder an autorickshaw driver with a knife on Sunday morning because the latter stopped the vehicle a few metres ahead of the spot the attacker wanted, and fled.The victim, Subhash Chavan (66) from Rahatani, suffered severe injuries to his throat in the attack. The Dehu Road police have registered a case under Section 109 (murder attempt) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against the suspect and launched a search operation for the man on the run.Senior inspector Vikram Bansode of the Dehu Road police said Chavan, the victim, early on Sunday morning went to Pimpri station to collect the delivery of vegetables. A man approached him and requested for a drop at Shirgaon. “The man offered Rs500 to Chavan, following which the latter agreed to drop him,” he said.Bansode said after crossing the old octroi post in Nigdi, the passenger suddenly told Chavan to stop the vehicle because he wanted to answer nature’s call. As the autorickshaw was moving at speed on the Pune-Mumbai highway, Chavan could not stop it immediately.“Chavan slowed down the autorickshaw and stopped it in front of Kendriya Vidyalaya around 7.30am. The passenger got down and started abusing Chavan for not halting the autorickshaw immediately. He suddenly took out a knife and attacked Chavan on his throat,” Bansode said.He said the passenger then ran away from the scene. Chavan, bleeding profusely, drove the vehicle to a hospital and got himself admitted. “After receiving information from the hospital, our team went there and registered the case,” the senior police inspector said.Bansode said there was no CCTV camera near the spot. “Our investigations are on,” he said.
