A 59-year-old man, Rabindro Chakraborty, and an employee of Tata Steel, who was admitted at the Tata Main Hospital with grievous head injuries on Sunday night, died in the wee hours of Tuesday.
A resident of Bara Flats in Agrico, Chakraborty was not injured in a road mishap, but sustained fatal injuries after falling victim to a snatchers gang while returning home from adjoining Sidhgora market along with his 27-year-old daughter Jaya.
The attempted bag-snatching incident took place on Road No 23 in Sidhgora, hardly one kilo metre away from the residence of Chief Minister Raghubar Das, a locality which also falls under the Sidhgora police station area.
Both the father and the daughter duo were returning home on a scooter after shopping from the near-by Sidhgora market at about 9 pm. When they were negotiating through Road No 23 in Sidhgora to reach Bara Residential Flats, two bike-borne criminals snatched the bag that Jaya had put in her arms while sitting pillion on the two-wheeler.
"Though the criminals could not snatch away the bag, in the impact of the snatching, Chakraborty lost balance of the scooter and fell down. Both father and daughter were injured, with the former losing his sense instantly after the fall,” said a relative.
The victim's relative said both the victims were rescued by some local residents and rushed to the Tata Main Hospital. Chakroborty was shifted to high dependency unit of the hospital, where was Jaya who had escaped with minor injury was discharged from the hospital last night. Chakraborty succumbed to his head injuries at about 1 am on Tuesday.
The police on Tuesday recovered the body and sent it to the MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem.