Two security guards were arrested on Sunday in connection with the murder of a 27-year-old man at Sector 10 in Faridabad.
The incident took place on the intervening night between July 5 and 6. Police said their initial probe revealed that the accused, employed as security guards in the area, mistook the victim, Vikas, for a thief and attacked him with sticks.
According to police, on July 5, Vikas visited his brother and father at the Rajasthan Seva Sadan, a wedding venue in Sector 10 where they worked as sanitation workers, and left later that night.
But the next morning, police said his body was found on a road adjacent to the Sadan.
In a complaint filed at the Sector 11 police station, Vikas’s brother, Abhishek, alleged that he was killed by security guards, Chaman and Vijay Kumar. Police said a case was registered under murder charges of the BNS at the Sector 8 police station.
A police spokesperson stated that the team acted swiftly and arrested the security guards. Kumar hails from Badram village in Bihar’s Siwan district, and currently resides at Adarsh Nagar in Ballabgarh; Chaman is a resident of Gudawari village, Palwal.
The accused were produced in court on Monday and remanded for two days in police custody.
Story continues below this ad
The Faridabad district has been witness to similar attacks on youths in recent times.
Last month, the Faridabad Police arrested a 19-year-old man and apprehended his two minor accomplices for allegedly assaulting and holding an 18-year-old Dalit boy, Sahil, hostage at Subhash Colony in Ballabgarh.
According to the police, the accused allegedly tonsured the teen’s head, shaved his eyebrows, and moustache, and hurled casteist slurs against him.
According to the police, the main accused hatched a plan to attack Sahil, who was once his close friend, “to teach him a lesson” due to the ongoing disputes between the two. Preliminary investigations in this case had revealed that the two had known each other for eight years.
