A 20-year-old daily wage earner sustained severe injuries when a group of 7-8 individuals assaulted him with sticks and rods. The attack reportedly occurred after he objected to people consuming liquor in the open in Sector 10 on Sunday evening.
Om Prakash, who belongs to Sitamarhi in Bihar, told police in a complaint that he was crossing the area when he saw a group of locals drinking on the road. “They were the local residents and four of them were from one family — Monu, his father Vinod, his brother Vikas and his mother Duli — along with Sonu, Charnu and two other people I did not know. They were drinking on the road and creating a menace. I objected to their actions and in no time, all the men in the group started thrashing me with rods and sticks,” Omprakash said, adding that the group threatened to kill him if he interfered again.
A passerby took Om prakash to the Sector 10 government hospital, from where he was referred to Safdarjung hospital in Delhi. He was kept in the intensive care unit (ICU) for injuries to his head, hands and arms.
His father Jitendra, who works as a security guard told, he was transferred to the general ward on Tuesday evening. His condition is stable but he is not able to talk. “All of us take the same route to our workplaces daily. We don’t have any enmity with any of them. We are still trying to figure out why they would do this to my son,” Jitendra said.
Police said they have registered an FIR at the Sector 10 station under sections 147 (rioting),148 (rioting armed with weapon/s), 149 (unlawful assembly with common objective), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.