Five food delivery boys had no idea what was awaiting them as they sat on their parked bikes outside Malwan Kinara hotel at Markar Marg in Prabhadevi on Thursday afternoon and played games on their cell phones. They were waiting to receive delivery requests when suddenly a 35-year-old man turned up from nowhere and attacked them with a broken beer bottle. While one of the victims was grievously injured and received eight stitches on his hand, the others escaped with minor injuries.

One of the Zomato delivery boys, identified as Ankit Vinayak Chandne, 25, a resident of Madhusudan Mill chawl at Worli, suffered critical injuries on his hand. The other victims have been identified as Subham Sawant, Vinayak Jadhav, Omkar Aarde and Nikhil Kadam. The alleged accused Dipak Tate is popularly known as ‘Tattu’ bhai in Worli area.