Celebrating Valentine’s Day turned out disastrous for a 27 year old married man named Ishwar Singh as he was first beaten and then thrown from the balcony of his girlfriend’s flat by her relatives. The incident took place in the Sushant Lok area, Gurgaon, where Ishwar went to meet his date and was killed by two men. They have been identified as girl’s brother-in-law Ramesh (30) and his driver Anil (25) and both have been taken into custody.
In the words of Sandeep Ahlawat, SHO of Sushant Lok Police Station, “We had received information from a hospital about a critically injured man, who was admitted here at around 9 pm last night. We rushed there once we got the information. The hospital again called us at around 1 am, saying the man succumbed to his injuries.”
As per Hawa Singh, CPRO Gurgaon Police, Ishwar and the girl got acquainted with each other on social networking site Facebook and were in contact for the last seven months. He wanted to celebrate Valentine’s Day with her in Gurgaon. On Saturday evening, the girl received him at Huda City Centre Metro Station and from there, she took him to her flat in a multi-storey building in Sushant Lok.
Singh further added, “While they were interacting with each other in the flat, her brother-in-law, identified as Ramesh (30) and his driver Anil Kumar (25) reached there. And, seeing Ishwar there, the duo brutally assaulted him in a fit of rage, and later threw him down from the balcony.”
Deepak Saharan, DCP (East) Gurgaon Police stated, “An FIR in this regard has been lodged against Ramesh and Anil under 302 (murder), 201 (dispersing evidences) and 34 criminal conspiracy in Sushant Lok police station and both the accused have been arrested.”
Ishwar’s father filed a complaint against both the accused and claimed that they tried to crush the face of his son with stone after he fell on the ground.