A 40-year-old man is battling for life at a city hospital after being mercilessly assaulted over a parking dispute in West Delhi over the weekend.
Prakash, a resident of Rajouri Garden, suffered grievous injuries on his head due to repeated strikes with a helmet, and is critical at the BL Kapoor Hospital. The men accused of the assault were known to him. A similar incident had claimed the life of a courier company operator late last month after he objected to a group of drunken men urinating below his office at Central Delhi’s Shankar Market.
“Prakash was chatting with his friend Sri Kumar near the Four Story complex in Rajouri Garden around 10 p.m. on Sunday evening when the incident occurred,” said a senior police officer.
According to the police, Sri Kumar told them that they had parked their respective motorcycles adjacent to each other and were about to depart when Prakash saw that a car was blocking his vehicle’s way.
Even as Prakash established contact with the sole occupant of the car, a woman sitting next to the driver’s seat, and asked her to call them so that he could remove his bike, Ram, who would later lead the assault on him, reached the spot on his motorcycle. He was accompanied by his wife, who was riding pillion.
“Even as Prakash was making enquiries from the woman sitting in the car, Ram, thinking that the car belonged to the former, began hitting Prakash on his head repeatedly with his helmet till he collapsed,” the officer said, quoting Sri Kumar.
Sri Kumar called Prakash’s brother-in-law Manish, and both of them rushed him to hospital. Three days later, doctors are understood to have told the police, Prakash is in coma and in a medically critical condition.
The police said the main accused, who stays near Prakash’s residence, was arrested soon after the incident, and booked for attempt to murder.
