Showing a spate of criminal incidents plaguing the city, a third-year Chemistry student of National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) here was brutally assaulted and looted by three unidentified bike-borne miscreants.
Sahil Gulania (21) was returning from hostel adjacent to Omfed at 11.15 pm near the entrance to New Government Colony, Gajaptinagar, when he was stopped at the check-point by the miscreants. Soon, they hit his head, kicked his stomach and attempted to stab him. Gulania luckily skipped being stabbed by preventing it in hand.
The miscreants too robbed his HP laptop, wallet containing Rs 700, Samsung wave-533 mobile and left him bleeding and unconscious on the road before speeding away on their bike. An FIR was registered at Saheednagar police station in this connection.
Sources said similar incidents are occurring frequently in the campus of the institute. A female PhD scholar of NISER was too assaulted twice earlier, while several others were robbed of their mobile phones.
The students have demanded regular police patrolling and street light facility in the colony and around the institute to avoid such incidents, sources added.