A female constable and her husband were attacked with sharp weapons by robbers who had broken into their house in the wee hours on Friday, after they foiled a robbery bid. The couple had tried stopping the intruders from escaping their Nerul apartment, but were unsuccessful in doing so. It was the constable’s brother who heard their cries and took them to the hospital.

Vinanti Patil and her husband, Ravindra, woke up at 2.30 am to find a robber in their ground-floor apartment in Nerul. Illustrations/Amit Bandre