India, Sept. 26 -- Five suspects including two women were booked for allegedly robbing a cab after taking its driver hostage at gunpoint on Delhi-Mumbai expressway in Nuh early Thursday morning, said police.

According to officials, the incident took place at 12.15am when the five passengers that included three men and two women crossed the Hilalpur toll plaza in Rozka Meo.

The suspects, all in their early 20s, had booked the cab via an app from Dwarka, Delhi at 10.45pm on Wednesday to travel to Jaipur.

As per police, the passengers asked the driver, Pushkar Kumar, 26, to stop for rest near Rozka Meo as the women were feeling sick. When Pushkar was about to restart the car, the man seated on the co-driver pulled out a pistol and put it ...