Minister on stroll sans security robbed of mobile phone

Puducherry Minister R Kamalakannan has allegedly been robbed of his mobile phone when he was taking a stroll on the beach road here, police said on Tuesday.

The Education and Agriculture Minister, dressed in a T-shirt and half-trousers, was walking on Monday night without any security, when a motorcycle-borne gang snatched the phone away while he was speaking on it, the police said.