IAF officer beaten up,video goes viral
THE INCIDENT TOOK PLACE TAFTER THE IAF MAN’S BIKE SCRAPED AGAINST A MARUTI CAR ON THE MEHRAULI BADARPUR ROAD
milk supplier, a hotel employee and a nightclub bouncer were arrested on Saturday night for beating up an Indian Air Force (IAF) officer and his colleague in south Delhi’s Tughlaqabad.
Romil Baaniya, deputy commissioner of police (southeast), said the victim -- Sujay Kumar Sikandar -- is a corporal posted at IAF station, Tughlaqabad.
A police officer said the incident took place on Thursday night when Sikandar and his colleague were returning to the station on a bike. Their bike scraped past a Maruti Swift car on the Mehrauli-Badarpur Road.
“The car driver overtook the bike after following it for some distance and forced Sikandar to stop. Two men came out of the car and began abusing and assaulting the two IAF officials ,” said the officer.
An onlooker recorded the assault on his mobile phone and uploaded the video on social media.
The video was later shared multiple times, with people asking the police to take action.
In the 33-second clip, four to five men were seen abusing the IAF officer and forcibly removing the helmet from his head. One of the assaulters, wearing a blue T-shirt, is seen slapping and punching the officer and tearing his uniform.
“They dragged Sikandar and robbed him of his identity card and registration certificate of the bike,” the officer said. Sikandar later filed a complaint at the Sangam Vihar police station.
The arrested men were identified as Nitin Gupta, a resident of Ratiya Marg, Isa from Sangam Vihar, and Neeraj, who lives with his family in south Delhi.
”We identified and nabbed three attackers with the help of their cars’ registration numbers provided to us by some locals,” said the officer.
The three were nabbed from different areas in Delhi.
Gupta is a milk supplier at Malviya Nagar, Isa is a store keeper at a hotel in Mehrauli and Neeraj is a bouncer in a nightclub at PVR complex in Vasant Vihar, said the officer.
“We have recovered Sikandar’s robbed articles and seized the Swift car in which two of them were travelling. Efforts are on to nab the other attackers,” the officer said.