5, including minor, held in killing of man over liquor refusal

Four suspects and a minor were arrested for allegedly killing a tavern manager in Faridabad after he refused to serve them liquor.

Published on: Apr 18, 2026, 04:30:15 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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Four suspects were arrested, and a minor was apprehended for allegedly assaulting to death a tavern manager in Faridabad’s Sector-3 after he “refused to serve liquor” late at night, police said on Friday.

Police said that at least six more suspects, including the prime accused, who was among the first to approach the manager for liquor, are still on the run. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Yashpal Yadav, public relations officer of Faridabad police, said that all were held on Thursday night. “They were produced before a court that sent the minor to a remand home, while the others to one-day police remand,” Yadav said.

Two of the suspects, aged 23 and another a 24-year-old, are residents of Indira colony in Gurugram’s Sector-39, while the fourth accused, a 21-year-old, lives in Prem Nagar in Faridabad’s Sector-4.

Police said that at least six more suspects, including the prime accused, who was among the first to approach the manager for liquor, are still on the run.

According to police, the minor and the 24-year-old suspect had gone to the tavern beside a wedding venue on Wednesday night and asked the guard to make arrangements to either serve liquor or provide bottles for purchase.

“The tavern was closed for business and around 12.30 am, the duo entered into an argument with the guard and the manager, Adesh Yadav, 30, intervened,” the officer said.

Police said the duo returned to the venue and roped their cousins and uncles, who reached the tavern and attacked Adesh and his brother, Sumit Yadav.

The two brothers tried to run away, but the accused got hold of Adesh, who was brutally assaulted with rods, sticks and stones, leading to his death.

The incident disrupted the wedding, and police reached the spot, but all the suspects had fled. On Sumit’s complaint, an FIR was registered against the suspects under sections 103(1) (murder) and 3(5) (common intention) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanihta at Sector-8 police station.

Adesh, hails from Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh and started working at tavern in 2025.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More

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