2 hurt after 5 people assault them over auto fare in Gurugram

They hired an auto rickshaw to reach Aya Nagar. After finalising the fare, they got in but soon the driver asked them to pay ₹1,000 for a distance of 7kms, police said

Updated on: Oct 13, 2024, 06:18:03 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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Investigators said that the duo had reached a club in MGF mall on the night of September 29 and were returning home when the incident took place near gate number two of the metro station. (Representational Image)

Two men were badly injured after five people allegedly assaulted them over an auto rickshaw fare dispute below the MG Road metro station, police said on Saturday.

They said that the injured people were Rohit Gupta, 27, and Mukesh Kumar, 29 who live in Phase-VI of Aya Nagar in Delhi. The incident took place at about 12.30am on September 30, but the matter came to light on Saturday after Gupta, who was seriously injured, submitted a police complaint on Friday on the basis of which the suspects were booked.

Investigators said that the duo had reached a club in MGF mall on the night of September 29 and were returning home when the incident took place near gate number two of the metro station.

They hired an auto rickshaw to reach Aya Nagar. After finalising the fare, they got in but soon the driver asked them to pay ₹1,000 for a distance of 7kms, police said.

A senior police officer said that as soon as the driver and his associates attacked the duo, Gupta, in order to save Kumar, asked him to run away. Sandeep Kumar, public relations officer of Gurugram Police, said CCTV camera footage of the spot was being scanned to ascertain the identity of the men.

An FIR was registered against unidentified people under sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at DLF Phase-II police station on Friday.

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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