BENGALURU: A gang of three bike-borne men waylaid a 28-year-old man and robbed him after attacking him with an iron rod in the early hours of Friday. The victim, Nakul Kumar, was returning home in Mahalakshmi Layout after a business trip to Hyderabad when the gang targeted him.
In his complaint to the police, Kumar said that he had alighted from a bus at a stop nearby and was walking home when three men came on a bike and asked him for water. Kumar ignored them and continued walking when they hit him on the shoulder with an iron rod.
They snatched `4,000 and his cellphone before fleeing the spot. Police were alerted by his parents when they heard his cry for help. He was taken to a hospital and discharged after treatment.
Police said that a special team had been formed to nab the gang.