A man, who requested a group of men not to burst firecrackers as the sound was disturbing his ailing mother, was allegedly attacked with a brick and an iron rod on Ananda Palit Road in Entally on Sunday night.

Sayan Kundu, 30, suffered injuries on his head that needed four stitches.

Two persons were arrested till Monday afternoon.

Kundu alleged that the “harassment” started around 7.30pm on Sunday.

“My mother first went out and requested the men not to burst crackers so close to our house. Instead of stopping, they only increased the frequency,” said Kundu, who earlier worked as a guard and is now looking for a job.

His mother Khukumoni Kundu, 53, suffers from multiple ailments, he said.

The family of three lives in a one-storey house on Ananda Palit Road. The window opens to the road where the group was bursting firecrackers.

“As they did not stop, my father and I met them with the same request,” Kundu said.

The men, he said, started pushing his father and then attacked him (Kundu) with a brick.

“They smashed a brick on my head. We got scared and retreated. We decided to report the matter to police. As we were getting ready to go out and inform the police, I saw some of the men still loitering outside the house,” Kundu said.

The family members knew only one of the men, who was from a neighbouring area. The rest were “outsiders,” they said.

“We managed to go to NRS Medical College and Hospital for a test. After returning home, we were heading for Entally police station to file a formal complaint when the men confronted us. One of them was wielding a rod. He struck me on the head, at the same place where they hit me before with the brick,” Kundu said.

His father and a neighbour dragged him inside the house and locked the door.

Later at night, Kundu and his father Sushil Kundu, 64, went to the police station.

“As I knew one of the attackers by face, I took the police to his house but he was not there. His sister gave us an invalid phone number,” Kundu said.

He said the police had initially registered a general diary entry, but later an FIR was registered after the “officers saw us talking to reporters outside the police station”.

Officers at the police station said a case had been registered under sections of causing grievous hurt with the use of dangerous weapons.

Deputy commissioner of police, eastern suburban division, Gaurav Lal said on Monday afternoon two persons were arrested.