Police say that at about 0250h today Police Sergeant 18905 Chandradat Kuldeep along with his wife and three friends were on their way home when he observed two men on a motor scooter robbing a man and a woman of their jewellery on the Eccles Public Road, EBD.
The police rank and his three friends went to the assistance of the two persons being robbed and during this a third perpetrator on a bicycle attacked the police Sergeant’s wife in an attempt to rob her, a release from the police said. The Sergeant ran back to his wife’s assistance and during a scuffle with the man he was stabbed to his neck with an ice-pick.
The two men on the scooter and the man on the bicycle managed to escape.
The release said that Sergeant Kuldeep was taken to a private hospital where the wound was stitched and he is receiving further medical attention. His condition is regarded as stable.
