Amidst lockdown a 34-year-old man was attacked by a gang of four miscreants at Devnagar under Sitaramdera police station area late on Thursday night.
The victim identified as Rakesh Kohli has been admitted with Tata Main Hospital for treatment of his wounds sustained in the head, neck and other parts of the body.
According to sources, the victim had come to his inlaws' house at Devnagar along with one of his friends.
" There was some dispute. After an hour, Kohli who is a resident of Golmuri wanted to return back home. But as he started his bike and his friend Budha sat as a pillion rider on the bike, four youths started hitting with sticks. As the victim was being attacked, one of the attackers took out a sword and hit hard on Kohli's head causing hm to fall down. Subsequently, the attacker hit Kohli repeatedly on the other part of his body," said the relative requesting anonymity.
He said about a fortnight ago the police had busted a gang of criminals who used to run a racket of selling "brown sugar" in Devnagar.
" As per our information though Kohli who is a building material supplier.has no role behind the arrest of the brown sugar sellers in the locality, the associates of the drug-peddler had suspicion that it was Kohli due to which the police cracked on the drug-peddler gang. This was the reason that four miscreants who were associated with the drug-peddler had attacked him on Thursday night," said sources.
OC, Sitaramdera police station, Anjani Kumar confirmed about the grievous attack on a 34-year-old man late on Thursday night, but said that as they are yet to get any statement nor any FIR in connection to the incident, they have not been able to make any arrest in this regard.
"The victim is still undergoing treatment at the Tata Main Hospital. We will arrest the culprits involved in the incident only when we get a statement from the victim," said Kumar.