Man assaulted by three suspects for honking

Gurugram: Three suspects were booked for allegedly assaulting a man in Bilaspur after he honked multiple times to get a motorcycle parked in the middle of a road removed, police said on Monday, adding that they are yet to be arrested

Gurugram: Three suspects were booked for allegedly assaulting a man in Bilaspur after he honked multiple times to get a motorcycle parked in the middle of a road removed, police said on Monday, adding that they are yet to be arrested.

Man assaulted by three suspects for honking

According to police, the incident took place at about 8.45pm on January 15, when the victim was returning home on his motorcycle. Police said that the suspects were in an inebriated state and parked the motorcycle on the road in front of their residence in such a way that it left no space for the passage of other vehicles.

Police said the suspects had come out of their residence after victim Rishi Pal (40), honked multiple times. They also asked him to come inside their home and offered him drinks and hookah.

Investigators said that once Pal went inside their home, the suspects locked the door and assaulted him with rods and sticks. They said that he somehow managed to open the door and escaped.

Investigators added that the suspects also snatched Pal’s mobile phone, but a police team later recovered it.

Police said the prime suspect is Pal’s cousin and he had also allegedly assaulted him in an inebriated state five years ago.

“The suspects were probably irked with Pal’s honking and they were in an inebriated condition,” a police officer said.

Investigators said that Pal received bruises on his eyes and face and was admitted to a government hospital in Sector 10A. He was discharged from the hospital on January 19, they added.

Pal submitted a complaint at Jamalpur police post on Sunday. They were booked in an FIR registered under Section 34 (common intention), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Bilaspur police station, police said.

Sub-inspector Trilok Tanwar, in-charge of Jamalpur police post, said that medical reports on Pal’s injuries are yet to be collected after which action will be taken against the three suspects.

Incidentally, this is the second such incident in Gurugram in the last one week. On January 18, a woman executive of a multinational bank was allegedly slapped multiple times by a man on a flyover in Sector 17 after she failed to give him passage due to traffic congestion.