A 35-year-old man was allegedly killed late on Tuesday outside a restaurant on Ghaziabad’s Loni Road after being struck to death with bricks. Unidentified men can be seen hitting him in a live video that went viral.
The man was identified by the police as Arun Singh, a resident of Loni and the son of a retired sub-inspector of the Delhi Police. He was at the restaurant with two friends, Deepak Kumar and Sanjay Rawat, according to the police. Around 9.15 p.m. on Tuesday, a group of up to four men attacked Singh before abandoning him by the side of the road.
“Arun and his friends were at the restaurant for dinner. In between, another group of men arrived in cars. It is not clear why the other group started hitting him with bricks. An altercation over parking or some other issue resulted in the incident. We are probing the motive. A live video of the incident was captured by some men passing by in a car,” said police superintendent Gyanendra Kumar Singh.
One of the suspects can be seen pounding the victim with bricks while he is lying on the road in the footage. There were several autos at the scene. Before running away, one of the suspects also wrecked Arun Singh’s automobile.
Police said they have registered a case of murder. “The family of [Arun Singh] lodged the case against the unidentified men and also named his two friends. The two were not involved in the fight and we have picked them for questioning to get more details. Our teams are trying to trace the suspects,” said the police superintendent.
