Bhopal

62-year-old attacked, robbed of, two held

Staff Reporter

Two miscreants involved in attacking with a sharp-edged weapon and robbing a suitcase carrying cash at Shivaji Nagar were nabbed by police.

The 62-year-old employee of a pathology lab was attacked in his nose with sharp-edged weapon, said SP South Sampat Upadhyay while speaking with media persons here on Tuesday.

He said that the nabbed accused persons were identified as Saalam Khan (25) of Banganga and Kartik Rajput (19) of Ratibad while third accused Anas Khan managed to escape with the briefcase carrying cash.

Saalam and Anas have worked as drivers for Dr Rajesh Mehra and were aware of his routine carrying cash at the end of the day and before committing crime they have recce the area and later planned the crime.

The injured attacked was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was provided primary treatment and is reportedly stable.

Police said that the victim Shosmani Pathak was robbed and attacked while he was trying to keep briefcase carrying and documents in car owned by Dr Rajesh Mehra who runs Venus Mri & Mdct Centre Pvt Ltd at Shivaji Nagar.

The victim was working as his daily routine of keeping the belongings of Dr Rajesh Mehra in his car and when he was keeping the briefcase miscreants attacked him and tried to snatch briefcase but he opposed and caught one of the accused and to rescue the caught accused other miscreant attacked him with a sharp edged weapon and escaped the spot.