Bagh Sewania police on Friday booked a miscreant who allegedly attacked a man after the victim resisted a pick pocketing attempt in a city bus. The accused was caught by the passengers and later handed over to police.
The accused has been identified as Sohan Patel.
Police said the accused was caught while trying to steal a purse from the victim, Rakesh Gaur. He attacked the victim with a sharp edged weapon. However, he was overpowered by other passengers in the bus.
The victim is a resident of Mandideep and was on his way to home from work. Gaur boarded a city bus at Jawahar Chowk for Mandideep and when the bus reached Narayan Nagar, he found that the accused was trying to steal his purse. He immediately turned only to find that the accused instead of being afraid took a sharp edged weapon and attacked the victim and injured the victim in his chest.
The victim escaped with minor injury and the passengers overpowered the accused and later informed police.
The police registered a case and have started further investigation.
The accused was sent under judicial custody after he was produced in the court on Friday. In February this year a 26 year old youth, Kamal Singh Gurjar, a resident of village Tada- Gunga of Berasia was stabbed to death by three miscreants in a low floor bus near Royal Market after he resisted pick picketers by miscreants.