Pune: A 17-year-old boy’s right palm severed from his wrist in a brutal machete attack by two minors (both 17 years old) over an old enmity in a slum area near Shivajinagar railway station around 3pm on Wednesday.Senior inspector Mahesh Bolkotgi of the Shivajinagar police said, “Our teams admitted the victim to Sassoon General Hospital. Doctors are trying to replant the teenager’s palm through a microsurgery. We have detained the two minors, who attacked the victim, and registered a case of attempted murder.”He said, “All the the three minors are school dropouts. They had an old rivalry for the past three to four years. It had prompted the victim’s parents to send him to their other home in an SRA (Slum Rehabilitation Authority) scheme in Hadapsar. He had been living there with his sister.”The two detained minors spotted the victim on Wednesday when he went to visit his parents. “The duo decided to teach him a lesson and assaulted him. The victim attempted to save himself and took all the blows of the machete on his hands, resulting in his palm being severed from the wrist,” Balkotge said.
