Hindustan Times (Chandigarh)

Aspiring air hostess stabbed by ‘friend’

- HT Correspond­ent

By the time our team reached the spot, the neighbours had already rushed the injured woman to GTB Hospital. She is undergoing surgery.

NEWDELHI: A 21-year-old aspiring air hostess is battling for life at a government hospital after she was stabbed multiple times, allegedly by a man living in her neighbourh­ood in east Delhi’s Ram Nagar near Shahdara on Wednesday evening.

Police said the attacker was known to the woman and they were friends. He fled the crime scene after the incident. They suspect a love angle. The absconding suspect, identified as Adil, is an auto-lifter. He was arrested in vehicle theft cases, police said.

Nupur Prasad, deputy commission­er of police (Shahdara district), said the crime took place around 5.30 pm at Mansarovar area in Ram Nagar. The DCP said it came to their notice through a call made to the police control room (PCR) by a neighbour.

“By the time our team reached the spot, the neighbours had already rushed the injured woman to Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital. She is presently in operation theatre (OT) and undergoing surgery,” said Prasad adding a case of attempt to murder has been registered in connection with the crime. The woman’s condition is critical.

The DCP said the woman is undergoing air hostess training at Frankfinn institute. She was out to buy something from a shop in her neighbourh­ood. She was heading towards the shop when Adil stopped her. Locals said the two were having a discussion that turned into an altercatio­n.

The officer said, Adil took out a knife and attacked the woman. NOIDA: Manoj Sharma received the shock of his life when three motorcycle-borne people allegedly snatched his smartphone from Noida-Sector 10 on June 12.

His nightmare, however, had just begun.

Sharma said photograph­s being clicked by one of the thieves are now being uploaded to his Google Drive account, adding to his desperatio­n each passing day.

Though he has been able to pinpoint the man’s general location through the phone’s global positionin­g system, the culprit continues to be at large.

The smartphone, an Oppo F3 Selfie Expert, costs around ₹20,000.

“As I have synchronis­ed my phone’s photo gallery with Google Drive, photograph­s – including selfies – clicked by the thief get uploaded to my account. I was even able to track the phone’s last location to Khoda in Ghaziabad, but Noida police haven’t initiated any action until now,” Sharma said.

The 32-year-old automobile company employee said he was talking to somebody over the phone when three miscreants snatched it from his hand.

He gave chase and managed to catch up with them at a traffic signal in Sector 12, but the culprits wouldn’t give in without a fight.

“They began beating me up. I somehow held on to two of them, but the third one sped away with my mobile phone,” he said. “There were many people at the traffic signal, but nobody came forward to help me. They simply stood and watched.”

Sharma handed the two accused – identified as Lucky Singh and Sachin Singh – over to the Sector 20 police, who registered a case and arrested them. “But they did not bother to catch the one who got away,” he said. The identity of the third accused is yet to be disclosed.

Noida superinten­dent of police (SP)Arun Kumar Singh said the phone would be placed under surveillan­ce and recovered at the earliest.

The absconder will also be arrested, he assured.

Meanwhile, Manoj Sharma has posted several appeals on the social media and contacted his acquaintan­ces in Khoda area in a bid to locate the phone thief.

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