4 DU students beaten up by bouncers at cafe
Four students of Delhi University’s law faculty were allegedly beaten up by bouncers at a cafe over raising the volume of music in Northwest Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar area, the police said on Thursday.
The injured have been identified as Samar, Mukul, Abhigyaan, and Mayank, all hailing from the Purvanchal area.
Samar and his friends had gone to a cafe in Hudson Lane on Wednesday evening to celebrate his birthday.
During the celebration, a scuffle broke out between the victims and bouncers of the cafe for raising the volume of music, following which the accused started beating them, a senior police officer said.
“Based on the complaint of Samar, a case
under Sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) was registered at the Mukherjee Nagar police station. The accused have been identified and they will be arrested soon,” said DCP (Northwest) Vijayanta Arya.
Former DUSU president Shakti Singh said that some students of the law faculty were having a birthday party at the
Houseful Cafe in Hudson Lane where an altercation broke out over raising of the volume of music. Following this, the cafe bouncers thrashed four students severely. The thrashing was so brutal that one of the students, Mayank, had to be referred to RML Hospital.
“Incidents like these are a common sight in the university area where cafe owners and bouncers assault students,” Mr Singh said, adding “As initially the authorities failed to deliver justice, we were left with no option but to protest. However, later the police registered a case.”
The owner of the cafe did not get the verification of his employees done, including the bouncers. Owing to this, a case has been registered against the cafe owner, the police added.