A 41-year-old dentist was beaten to death by a group of people in the capital after a cricket ball he and his son were playing with hit a biker, police said yesterday.
The killing took place just after midnight in west Delhi’s Vikaspuri area when Pankaj Narang and his son were playing cricket inside their house.
A heated argument took place after the ball flew out of their balcony and hit the biker.
The man called some 10 of his friends who dragged the dentist out of his house and beat him with sticks and bricks leading to his death, police said, quoting the victim’s family.
As Narang collapsed, the attackers fled the spot.
Police said a relative of the doctor, who was also badly attacked, was being treated in a hospital and his condition was stated to be out of danger.
Police have arrested five people, including a woman, and apprehended four juveniles for the attack.
The woman, in her 30s, was identified as Mayassar. Two of the accused have identical name: Aamir Khan. The other two were Gopal Singh and Naseer Khan.
A police officer said Naseer Khan was one of the prime accused and he was riding the motorcycle.
Naseer, however, disputed the ball story and told police it was dentist who picked up a quarrel with him.
According to him, Narang stopped him and told him not to ride the motorcycle at high speed at night, especially in residential areas.
This led to a heated argument - and scuffles. Naseer left the spot and returned with his associates, said the officer, providing Naseer’s account.
All the accused reside in a Vikaspuri slum cluster. “The four male accused are aged 20-21 years,” an officer said. A hunt is on for some others involved in the crime.
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