chennai a doting father who refused to part with a mobile phone gifted to him by his daughter was murdered by two bikeborne robbers at periyapalayam on the city outskirts on wednesday madhavan a farmer and a resident of kottaikuppam village near periyapalayam in tiruvallur district was on his morning walk when he was attacked police said the 60yearold man who had undergone a heart surgery recently used to walk on kottaikuppamkattuvai road every morning police quoting the victims wife said madhavan had received a new smart phone last week from his daughter who is a doctor in the czech republic after he complained about his old phone according to eyewitness accounts two men on a bike with helmets tried to snatch the mobile from madhavan when he was talking on the phoneas madhavan held on to it firmly one of the assailants pulled out an iron rod and hit the elderly man repeatedly the duo snatched the phone and fled from the spot a grievously injured madhavan attempted to walk back home about 300 metres away but collapsed near his house on the road onlookers who rescued him alerted his wife and son who took him to a private hospital at periyapalayam later he was shifted to the mmm hospital in mogappair where doctors declared him brought dead doctors told police that madhavan bled to death due to a lung injury tiruvallur superintendent of police p aravindan and uthukkottai dsp sarathi visited to the spot special teams have been formed to apprehend the suspects with the help of cctv camera footage further investigation is on