Biker stabbed after brushing past scooty

A Delhi policeman’s son was stabbed by a group of youths in a case of road rage in south Delhi’s Lado Sarai on Sunday evening.

Prince Tewatia, 28, received four wounds, including in his back and thigh, and was admitted to AIIMS trauma centre.

He was, however, treated and later discharged on Monday afternoon.

A resident of south Delhi’s Saidul Ajab area, Tewatia works at a call centre in Gurgaon. He was returning home on his Bullet motorcycle with his friend Paras when the incident took place.

Chinmoy Biswal, Additional DCP (south), said Tewatia’s motorcycle brushed past a scooty in Lado Sarai. The scooty rider was with three other friends who were on another two-wheeler.

An argument ensued between two groups, which soon turned into a scuffle. However, locals intervened and separated the two groups and sent them away.

Tewatia dropped his friend at his residence in Lado Sarai and was returning home when he decided to smoke a cigarette outside a kiosk, not far from the incident spot.

While he was smoking, four youths attacked him with a knife. Tewatia was rushed to a hospital by the locals and one of them called the police.

Gaurav, one of the eyewitnesses, was standing 200 metres from the spot. “I saw a Bullet motorcycle brushing past a scooty. Later, the scooty riders stabbed the rider of the motorcycle. By the time I reached the victim, he had been stabbed atleast 3 or 4 times. The men on the scooty had fled from the spot,” he said.

Police said that the probe so far suggests that the attackers were the same men with whom Tewatia had got into a scuffle minutes earlier.

A case of attempt to murder has been registered at Saket police station and a team formed to identify the suspects. CCTV footage from nearby areas are being scanned.

Mikki, the victim’s brother, said that the area where the victim was stabbed is unsafe at night. It gets dark early and there are wild bushes on both sides of the road.