NEW DELHI: A man was assaulted, his wife allegedly molested, and his son stripped and beaten in public following a dispute over a gym in East Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar area.
The incident took place on Friday around 4 pm. A CCTV footage doing rounds on social media showed some people stripping a man on the road and thrashing him while he was pleading for mercy.
The woman lodged a police complaint.
The complainant stated that she had opened a gym in the basement of her house and Pintu Yadav alias Satish Yadav, was its caretaker. She also claimed that she has the ownership documents with her, while Satish was the caretaker. She stated that she did not give him any rights over the gym, alleging that he has forcibly occupied it.
“Whenever we ask him to vacate the gym, he abuses us and assaults us. He has been mentally and physically harassing me and repeatedly threatening to kill my children and entire family,” she said in her complaint.
“On January 2, there was water leakage in my house, due to which water filled the entire house and there was a foul smell everywhere. I made several calls to him, but he did not respond. The sewerage connection is located in the basement, so me and my husband went downstairs to check it. While we were there, Satish arrived with his associates and they started beating us,” she stated in her complaint.
First, they dragged both the victims from the gym gate, assaulted them there, and then continued beating them on the road. The complainant also alleged that they pulled her hair and hit her on the face, as well as kicked her.
Later, they dragged her husband into the gym, stripped him and assaulted him brutally with a gym rod and threatened to kill him, the complaint said.
“When I tried to save my husband and ran towards the police station, some people went into our house, beat my son, dragged him onto the road, stripped him and assaulted him with shoes, due to which his tooth broke. They also hit him on his head. They threatened to kill him and disfigure his face, the woman mentioned in her complaint.
While speaking to reporters, the complaint said that the alleged people dragged her son out of the house, stripped him of all his clothes, and beat him naked. "People were watching, and my son kept pleading with folded hands. Is this less than a rape?"
Her husband told reporters that Pintu and Shubham tore away his clothes and kept punching him in the face. His son's wedding is in 10 days and he, along with his brother, has left home after switching off their mobile phones. The police have only arrested Pintu so far.