In another attack on a senior citizen, five men tried to assault and strangulate a 66-year-old Juhu resident late on Sunday night. The accused robbed him of his cash and mobile phone. While detection officers were patrolling the area, the accused fled as soon as one of the officers caught one of them red-handed.

Roger Anthony Misquitta, an acute diabetic patient, is used to going for late-night walks regularly. On Sunday night too, he was taking a stroll around his residence at DJ road, when someone covered his face from behind and attacked him. "He was trying to strangulate me by holding my collar. Within a minute, four of his associates joined him and asked me for all my valuables. They took away my wallet which had Rs 2,000 in and my mobile phone," Misquitta told mid-day, adding, "That's when detection officers came by and saw the accused. An officer even managed to get hold of one of the assaulters but he managed to escape."