Mangaluru City Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths arrested two youth for having committed dacoity by assaulting two men and later fleeing with their mobile phones and SIM cards in Deralakatte.
According to DCP (Crime and Traffic) Uma Prashanth, the arrested men were identified as Mohammed Akbar (22), a resident of Deralakatte, and Mohammed Musavir (23), a resident of Someshwara.
On December 22, when Lenin and his friend Vishnu Prakash were in the room of a building near Yenepoya Hospital in Deralakatte, Akbar and Musavir had gained entry into the room and assaulted them before fleeing with their mobile phones worth Rs 18,000.
The arrested men have been handed over to Ullal police for further investigation.