Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 8

Three armed persons robbed a man of his scooter and mobile phone while in another incident, a local resident lost his mobile to snatchers in the wee hours of Saturday when he was out on a morning walk.

Pawan Kumar, a resident of Gokul Vihar on Batala Road, told the police that on Saturday he was going towards Lilly Resort located on the Amritsar-Attari bypass road and had reached near the Vallah bridge when three unidentified persons came on a bike and hit his scooter. He said he fell on the road and the accused broke into scuffle with him.

He said one of them snatched his mobile and the other accused attacked him with a sword. They snatched his scooter and mobile and fled from the spot.

Maqboolpura police registered a case under Sections 379-B (2) and 34 of the IPC against unidentified persons in this connection while there was no breakthrough in the case.

In the second incident, Ritik Kumar of Sat Kartar Nagar near Khandwala, Chheharta, was out on a morning walk and reached near the Guru Nanak Dev University footover bridge at around 4am, three youths riding a bike snatched his mobile phone and fled towards Chheharta.

A case under Sections 379-B and 34 of the IPC was registered by the Cantonment police station. The police said investigation was under progress.