Man, 27, held for bludgeoning 70-year-old to death in Gurugram

Incident near wine shop escalated quickly; victim collapsed before being attacked again with a stone, say investigators.

Published on: Mar 18, 2026, 08:24:11 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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A 27-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly bludgeoning a 70-year-old man to death following an argument over drinking alcohol in public in Sector 21, police said.

Accused, a UP native living locally, allegedly kept assaulting victim for minutes; case registered at Udyog Vihar police station. (File photo)

The accused, Monu Rajput, a native of Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh who lives in Dundahera and works as a painter, was arrested within hours of the incident on Monday. He was produced before a court on Tuesday and taken on one-day police remand for interrogation, police said.

The deceased, identified as Jagdish (single name), was a resident of Dundahera in Udyog Vihar.

According to police, the incident took place around 4.15pm on Monday near a wine shop, where Rajput was consuming alcohol. Jagdish objected and asked him to move elsewhere, triggering an argument.

Police said Rajput, who was allegedly already intoxicated, refused to leave, leading to a scuffle that soon escalated into a violent assault.

Vinod Kumar, station house officer of Udyog Vihar police station, said Jagdish fell to the ground during the assault. “He kept assaulting the senior citizen for several minutes, leaving him unable to move. Later, he lifted a heavy rock lying nearby and dropped it on Jagdish,” Kumar said. “He again picked up the rock and dropped it on Jagdish.”

Locals raised an alarm and alerted the police control room. Jagdish was taken to a private hospital in Palam Vihar, where he died during treatment late on Monday night.

Police said a preliminary investigation has indicated a prior enmity between the two, the details of which will be ascertained during Rajput’s interrogation.

Based on a complaint by Jagdish’s family, a case under Section 103(1) (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was registered against Rajput at Udyog Vihar police station on Monday night.

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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