State-level badminton player beaten to death in Faridabad over elopement: Police

A 21-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death in Faridabad after being abducted by the family of a girl he eloped with; two suspects detained.

Published on: May 23, 2026, 04:42:13 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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A 21-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death in Faridabad’s Tigaon after being abducted by family members of a minor girl with whom he had eloped a month ago, police said on Friday.

The deceased, a state-level badminton player, was a resident of Saidpur in Rajasthan’s Bhiwadi. Police said he had left home two days ago after informing his family that he was travelling to Faridabad to appear before police in connection with the elopement case. He subsequently went missing.

Police said the man was in a relationship with a 17-year-old girl from Tigaon and had eloped with her on April 20. Following the incident, the girl’s family registered a kidnapping case against him at Tigaon police station.

During the investigation, police recovered the minor girl, who allegedly told investigators and later a judicial magistrate that she had neither been kidnapped nor raped. Police, meanwhile, continued efforts to trace the man.

A senior police officer said the girl’s family informed Tigaon police station on Wednesday that they had managed to apprehend the badminton player.

“A police team reached the spot to arrest him but found that he had been brutally assaulted and had multiple injury marks on his body,” the officer said.

Investigators said he was rushed to the civil hospital in Ballabgarh, where doctors placed him on ventilator support. He died during treatment around 2am on Friday.

Yashpal Yadav, public relations officer of Faridabad police, said two members of the girl’s family had been detained by the crime branch on suspicion of involvement in the murder.

“On a complaint filed by the deceased’s father, a case of attempt to murder was registered against the girl’s family members at Tigaon police station on Thursday. It was later converted into a murder case after his death,” he said.

“Police are trying to ascertain whether he was abducted from Rajasthan or from Faridabad, where he may have arrived to appear before police at Tigaon police station,” he added.

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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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