Chandigarh, Aug. 5 -- In a brazen case of midnight violence, three nihangs allegedly waylaid a Volvo bus driver, before launching an attack on the driver and a passenger with swords and sticks near Gaushala Chowk on the Sector 44-45 road.

When a Rapido bike rider tried to film the attack, the trio allegedly attacked him as well and snatched his mobile phone, before fleeing.

The incident took place around 12 am on the intervening night of August 2 and 3, when Lakshay Thapar, a 33-year-old Rapido driver from Panchkula, was returning home after dropping off a passenger.

According to the FIR, registered at the Sector 49 police station, three nihangs approached a moving Volvo bus, bearing a Himachal Pradesh number, on foot from the wrong si...