Kolkata: Maidan jogger stabbed, 2 others robbed at gunpoint

KOLKATA: A jogger at Maidan was stabbed and two others were threatened at gunpoint around dawn on Wednesday. The two accused have been arrested from Entally and Beniapukur.
According to police, Md Imran alias Totla (33) and Sk Sameer Hussein alias Saboo (33) robbed Posta resident Govind Vyas (24) who was jogging near Fort William on Red Road, as well as two morning walkers — Bowbazar resident Rakesh Rana (49) and SN Banerjee Road resident Sachin Kumar Shaw (21).

The two accused rode down Kidderpore Road on a scooterette and attempted to rob Vyas near the Kidderpore oval around 5.15am. When one of them asked Vyas to hand over his iPhone and valuables, the stoutly built Vyas, a regular jogger at Maidan, resisted and tried to pin him to the ground. The other accused took out a knife and stabbed him repeatedly. As Vyas fell, bleeding heavily from his head, hands and legs, the accused fled with the mobile towards Outram Road. Five minutes later, they robbed Rana and Shaw at gunpoint near Mohammedan Sporting Ground and fled with two cellphones and Rs 4,500.
Morning walkers found Vyas lying in a pool of blood and informed cops. He was taken to SSKM Hospital. “Our son has been released, but he has received three dozen stitches,” said a family member.
Cops arrested the accused within nine hours. “We arrested the two about 3pm,” said joint CP (crime) Murlidhar Sharma. Cops registered the case on the basis of a complaint lodged by Rana and tagged Vyas’s incident to it. CCTV footage of the incidents have been collected and cops will seek in-camera trial of the accused. They said the accused have antecedents and their records are being checked.