Eatery owner killed during fight

GREATER NOIDA: A 38-year-old restaurant owner was shot dead at his outlet in Greater Noida late on Tuesday night, allegedly after a fight that broke out because a delivery order was taking longer than expected, police said.

The victim Sunil Agarwal, a resident of Dadri, ran a restaurant, Zam Zam, at Mitra Enclave in Greater Noida. He was trying to resolve an argument with some food delivery agents when three men, all drunk and apparently unconnected with the restaurant or the delivery agents, opened fire and killed him.

Three suspects have been arrested for the crime.

According to additional deputy commissioner of police, Greater Noida, Vishal Pandey, 10 delivery agents were collecting 15 food orders at the restaurant at around 12:15am on Wednesday, when they had a disagreement with one of the restaurant’s workers , Narayan, setting off a chain of events that led to the Agarwal’s death.

“A Swiggy delivery boy was engaged in a heated argument with restaurant staff, Narayan, over a delay in food. When the restaurant owner Sunil Agarwal reached there to intervene, someone opened fire from outside the restaurant and the bullet hit Agarwal in the head,” Pandey said.

Ashwani Goel, a friend on the victim, said he was rushed to a private hospital where doctors declared him dead.

Pandey said police quizzed the delivery agents who were present at the spot but were yet to find any evidence of their involvement in the murder. A case was registered against unknown persons under Section 302 (murder) of IPC.

News of the incident went viral on social media, where the incident was originally passed off as a killing caused by delayed order. Over the past few weeks, social media has been abuzz over the treatment of delivery agents by food delivery firms, and also unrealistic