India, Nov. 25 -- A 26-year-old delivery executive was left critically injured and placed on ventilator support after a group of around a dozen armed men attacked him with axes, rods and sticks in broad daylight in Sector 10, Gurugram, in what police said was an act of revenge targeting his younger brother.

Police said the incident took place around 1.30pm on Saturday when the victim, identified as Abhishek, a resident of Khandsa Mandi in Sector 37, had just boarded his motorcycle after stepping out of a warehouse to begin deliveries. The assailants arrived in a car and on five motorcycles, their faces covered, before ramming his motorcycle with the car and launching a brutal assault.

Investigators said doctors informed them that Abhish...