Chennai: Incidents of mobile phone snatching in and around Chennai touched a new alarming high on Saturday when A 61-year-old Japanese national working as a resident director of a private firm in Sipcot industrial estate in Irungattukottai near Chennai was hacked by a duo on a bike to rob his iPhone mobile.
The victim was on a walk inside the Sipcot estate when the incident happened.
The victim, Kuwaoka, working with Japanese joint venture firm Sankar JP Sealing Technology private Ltd, who suffered a deep cut injury on his hand, has been admitted to a private hospital.
Sriperumbadur police registered a case and started the hunt for the assailants. “We are looking into the incident of mobile phone snatching,” said Santhosh Hadimani, superintendent of police, Kancheepuram, when contacted.
Kuwaoka who is under medical care told his colleagues that he was followed by the assailants for some distance before he was attacked.
“He noticed a weapon in their hands when the bike reached near him and even tried to run from the scene when he was attacked. He tried to block the attack aimed at his head and suffered deep cut injury on his hand,” said Jaishankar Unnithan, director of the same firm, when this newspaper contacted him.
After Kuwaoka fell on the ground, the duo kicked and hit him on his head before taking away his mobile phone and speeding away on their bike. Kuwaoka has been in Chennai for the last one year and was mainly looking after sales and marketing duties of the firm.
