Minor booked for threatening and robbing 80-year-old

A 15-year-old minor was arrested by the Koregaon Park police for allegedly tying up an 80-year-old senior citizen with a nylon rope, covering the latter's face with a handkerchief, threatening him at knife point, and stealing cash and a mobile phone from his residence.

- Shrinivas Deshpande

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The incident was reported on January 1 between 6.45 pm and 7.30 pm at A1/3, Agrasen Society located in the Koregaon Park. The victim has been identified as Prasad Agarwal, 80, a retired man living alone in a flat in Koregaon Park. The complainant and Prasad Agarwal's son, Ravindra Agarwal, 56, is in real estate business and lives with his family in Sopan Baug area. Ravindra had hired a caretaker for his father from a private firm.