Kapurthala, March 4 -- Six women from Uganda and Tanzania have been arrested from a village in Phagwara for allegedly looting a Rajasthan-based businessman at knifepoint and threatening to implicate him in a molestation case, police said on Sunday.

The complainant said that he was travelling on the Amritsar-Ludhiana national highway and had stopped at a dhaba in Maheru village on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday when one of the women asked him for a lift.

The complainant drove her to the requested spot, where, he found, that five other women were already waiting. There, the women allegedly threatened him with a knife and told him to hand over all the valuables in his possession, failing which they would implicate him in a mo...