Noida: A complaint was filed against three men for attacking a factory worker after a verbal altercation in Barola. They had attacked the worker on the head and back with bricks.A non-cognizable report was registered at Sector 49 police station and two of them were kept under preventive detention for disturbing peace in the area. Several videos of the attack were circulated on the internet. Users tagged the police in the videos and demanded action against the accused.Akash, the factory worker, said in his statement that when he was returning home from work on Wednesday, the men — Abhishek, Vishal and Abbu — stopped him near JJ Colony and started abusing him verbally over an old dispute. He said the men were drunk. When he tried to defend himself, the men started assaulting him. They threw him to the ground and started hitting him with bricks. One piece of brick hit the back of his head, and several other bricks hit his waist and back. Akash claimed that the blow to the head rendered him unconscious, yet the attackers continued to hit him. He also got severely injured in his upper back. He claimed the men left him half-dead and fled. Bystanders took him to a nearby hospital, where he received six stitches on the back of his head.
