<p>A youth was allegedly attacked by a friend and four others after he refused to get them prescription narcotic tablets. </p>.<p>According to a police complaint filed by Karthik T (21), his friend Bhuvan and the latter’s friends Manoj, Akash and two others brutally attacked him with lethal weapons following a fight in Magadi Road, West Bengaluru, on April 20. </p>.<p>Karthik, who lives in Chakra Nagar, Andrahalli, Bhuvan had called him up around 3 pm and asked him to come to a place near Royal Bar and Restaurant. When he reached there around 4.15 pm, Bhuvan and the four men were already waiting for him. </p>.<p>Bhuvan asked Karthik to buy them the prescription narcotic tablets that he had got them from a medical store the day before. When Karthik expressed his inability to do so, the five men became angry and got into an argument with him, allegedly threatening to kill him. </p>.<p>The argument took a violent turn when Manoj took out a dagger from his back and slashed Karthik’s hands. Bhuvan stabbed Karthik in the cheek while others kicked him many times, according to the police complaint. </p>.<p>The group left Karthik profusely bleeding and rode off on their motorcycles. Karthik called up a relative who rushed to the spot and took him to a hospital in Vijayanagar. </p>.<p>An officer from Magadi Road police said the youths were drugs addicts showing withdrawal symptoms as the narcotics trade had come to a halt because of the lockdown. They badly needed the narcotic tablets and attacked Karthik after he refused to buy them, the officer explained. </p>.<p>The suspects have been booked for attempted murder and a manhunt has been launched for them, he said. </p>
<p>A youth was allegedly attacked by a friend and four others after he refused to get them prescription narcotic tablets. </p>.<p>According to a police complaint filed by Karthik T (21), his friend Bhuvan and the latter’s friends Manoj, Akash and two others brutally attacked him with lethal weapons following a fight in Magadi Road, West Bengaluru, on April 20. </p>.<p>Karthik, who lives in Chakra Nagar, Andrahalli, Bhuvan had called him up around 3 pm and asked him to come to a place near Royal Bar and Restaurant. When he reached there around 4.15 pm, Bhuvan and the four men were already waiting for him. </p>.<p>Bhuvan asked Karthik to buy them the prescription narcotic tablets that he had got them from a medical store the day before. When Karthik expressed his inability to do so, the five men became angry and got into an argument with him, allegedly threatening to kill him. </p>.<p>The argument took a violent turn when Manoj took out a dagger from his back and slashed Karthik’s hands. Bhuvan stabbed Karthik in the cheek while others kicked him many times, according to the police complaint. </p>.<p>The group left Karthik profusely bleeding and rode off on their motorcycles. Karthik called up a relative who rushed to the spot and took him to a hospital in Vijayanagar. </p>.<p>An officer from Magadi Road police said the youths were drugs addicts showing withdrawal symptoms as the narcotics trade had come to a halt because of the lockdown. They badly needed the narcotic tablets and attacked Karthik after he refused to buy them, the officer explained. </p>.<p>The suspects have been booked for attempted murder and a manhunt has been launched for them, he said. </p>
