Delhi Police officer's son-in-law, friend create ruckus
By IANS
New Delhi : A senior Delhi Police officer's son-in-law, adamant on answering the call of nature right outside a shop in Connaught Place Sunday evening, bashed up the objecting private security guard and owners of the shop before giving the Delhi Police a run for their money.
The chain of events in central Delhi unfolded when Daljeet Singh, 27, son-in-law of Assistant Commissioner of Police Surender Pal Singh, accompanied by his friend Sunil Yadav, 25, - both unable to control their bladder - chose the ambience of the posh shopping district to relieve themselves outside a closed shop.
The property was occupied by Nirula's restaurant till a few months back and was vacant.
Private security guard Arvind objected to the men relieving themselves before the shop and asked them to go somewhere else. Angered at this, the duo roughed up the guard and threatened him with dire consequences.
Arvind immediately reported to Sunny Dillion, nephew of shop owner Sushil Garg. Dillion called up his cousin Yuvraj Garg, who was present in the building, but they too were beaten up.
On hearing the shouting, Yuvraj's parents Sushil Garg, 64, and Suman Garg, 58, tried to stop the two assaulting men, but they too were roughed up.
"Around 6.15 p.m., Daljeet and Sunil came in their Toyota Corolla, parked it in front of our shop and started urinating on the closed shutter, upon which Arvind raised a protest," Sushil Garg, the owner, said.
"On his objection, they first thrashed him and then my son and nephew. When I and my wife intervened, the duo even didn't spare us and rained blows on us," a frightened Garg told reporters.
His wife Suman said: "The two men were drunk and didn't think before hitting me. They kicked me and I have minor bruises on my head, face and the back."
Seeing the situation slipping out of control, Sunil called up the police control room (PCR). The drunken men even resisted the cops and dared them, in the name of the ACP, to book them for any offence.
Daljeet was audacious enough to manhandle a cop, tear his uniform and snatch the belt. Sunil said: "The duo didn't stop there and started beating us in front of the police officer."
Four other PCR vans and around 20 policemen moved in before they could overpower the two men.
They were whisked away to the Connaught Place police station. However, the police did not register a case. They did so only after media persons intervened.
"We have arrested the duo under the sections 324 (voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (wrongfully restraining any person), and 354 (use of criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the IPC," said Delhi Police spokesman Rajan Bhagat.
They were produced before a city magistrate, who released them on bail.
Sunil Yadav is reportedly the son of Dharamveer Yadav, a youth Congress leader, while Daljeet Singh Chopra is the son-in-law of ACP Surender Singh in the Crime Against Women cell in outer district.