Mangaluru, Aug 27: Unidentified miscreants attacked an auto rickshaw driver, at the auto stand opposite Kasturba Medical College (KMC) Hospital at Attavar in the city last night.
The incident two days after a group of rowdies swearing allegiance to saffron outfits stripped and brutally thrashed a youth for being with a woman belonging to another community in the same spot.
It is learnt that on the auto driver Gurudath (35) was speaking on his mobile phone at around 10: 45 p.m. when three persons surrounded him all of a sudden and attacked with lethal weapons.
When the victim started screaming the assailants fled the spot and the injured driver was rushed to the hospital.
He sustained injury to his left hand, shoulder and back. The exact reason for the attack is yet to be ascertained. The identities of the three assailants also yet to be known. Police have not ruled out the possibility of personal rivalry.
A resident of Nandavar in Bantwal taluk, Gurudath stays in his cousin’s house at Jeppu Bappal in the city and visits his parents weekly once.
It is learnt that on Wednesday he had come to KMC Hospital visit his relative, who gave birth to a child last week.
After visiting the patient, he had parked his three-wheeler at the auto-stand near the hospital and talking to one of his friends over phone. A case has been registered at Pandeshwar police station.
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