Two private university students were chased by four men in an SUV, assaulted with baseball bats and a kirch, and robbed of jewellery and a mobile phone near Sahoran village in the early hours of Sunday.
Before fleeing, they threatened the students with death and warned them against approaching the police, claiming they operated from Chandigarh. Prabhat identified the Innova driver as Vikram Rana, son of Avinash Rana, a resident of Ratanpura Mohalla in Phagwara. Police have yet to identify the other three accused.
23, a native of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, who resides at The North Chandigarh flats in Chanalon near Kurali, told police that around 6am on Sunday, he and his flatmate Himanshu, a resident of Samba in Jammu and Kashmir, drove out in their car bearing number HP-40-0011 to get food, according to the complainant Prabhat Singh. The men then took a gold chain from Prabhat, a silver chain from Himanshu and an iPhone 17 Pro in midnight blue. On Prabhat’s complaint, lodged along with his father Surinder Singh, police registered a case under Sections 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 304 (snatching), 126(2) (wrongful restraint), 351(2) (criminal intimidation) and 61(2) (criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
