Two arrested for attacking security guard with knife in Besant Nagar

Two youngsters were arrested for allegedly attacking a 39-year-old security guard with a knife after he questioned one of them for harassing his daughter in Besant Nagar.

The victim, Dilthamai, a native of Nepal, works as a security guard at a house in Oorur Alcott Kuppam and lives there with his family. One of the accused, Sujith Mukhiya, a native of Bihar who works as a cook at the same house, had allegedly been harassing Dilthamai’s daughter, asking her to be in a relationship with him.

On the night of October 12, the woman informed her father about the harassment. When Dilthamai questioned Sujith Mukhiya, an argument broke out. The accused allegedly abused and assaulted him before Sujith Mukhiya and his friend, Amarjit Amar, attacked him with a vegetable-cutting knife and fled.

Dilthamai sustained bleeding injuries and is undergoing treatment at a private hospital. Based on his complaint, the Shastri Nagar police registered a case and launched an investigation. The police arrested the two accused, both natives of Madhubani in Bihar, on October 13 and seized the knife allegedly used in the attack.

The police said interrogation revealed that both men worked as cooks at the house where Dilthamai was employed as a security guard. The accused were produced before a court on October 13 and remanded to judicial custody.