A group of men stabbed a 23-year-old man and robbed him of his mobile phone at K R Market on Monday night.
The victim, Bawara Ram Lal, ran for some distance to reach his room, informed his friend Kumar about the incident and collapsed due to heavy bleeding.
Kumar rushed Lal to Victoria Hospital but he was declared brought dead. Lal was working at Living Style on B V K Iyengar road.
A senior police officer said Lal was from Rajasthan and had come to the city a month ago. He was living in a rented room in Cottonpet with Kumar.
Lal's wife Usha lives in the village back home.
Lal was returning to his room around 8.30 pm when a group of men stopped him near A S R Street and tried to snatch his mobile phone.
When Lal resisted, one of the assailants stabbed him in his leg, snatched the phone and escaped.
The police registered a case after the hospital staff alerted them.
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