Eatery worker beaten, stabbed by neighbour

New Delhi: Refusal to bring beer for a neighbour lead to attack on a supervisor of a café in Punjabi Bagh and his friend.

The incident took place on July 13 when Puran Singh had just returned from his café after duty hours and received a call from a man named Laxman Vohra, who was known to him.

“It was around 9 pm when Vohra and his friends, Suraj and Manoj, were drunk after consuming alcohol. Vohra asked me to arrange more alcohol and I refused. This angered him and he punched me on my chest,” Mr Singh said in his purported statement to the police.

As he got scared and left the house to rush to safety, Mr Vohra chased him. He later got hold of Singh near Club Road and slapped and punched him repeatedly. “He kept saying that he would kill me as he took out a knife,” Mr Singh added in his statement.

It so happened that Singh’s friend Ramesh, who was also returning from work was passing by and spotted his friend getting thrashed. Before Ramesh could intervene, he witnessed his friend getting stabbed on the back of the head as he lay bleeding. When Ramesh intervened, he also sustained a stab injury on his arm.

Following this Vohra allegedly fled the scene.

Three people helped and took Ramesh and Singh to a nearby private hospital from where the police was informed and recorded their statements. On the basis of Singh’s statement, a case was registered and the accused was held.

“We have arrested the accused. He was held from his house and later confessed to his involvement in the attempt. Both victims will survive but we have been informed by the doctors that Ramesh. who sustained a deep cut on the arm may lose his arm even though efforts are being made to prevent that,” said a police officer.