Spat over a trivial issue drove son of a former Deputy Superintendent of Police to allegedly kill a Retired Air Force officer in Gurgaon’s Sector 5 area on Sunday night.
The accused, Dhiraj Kumar, beat Ashwani Sharma (45) so brutally that he died on the spot. The nature of the brutal assault was revealed during the post-mortem examination of the victim. One of his ribcage bones broke and pierced his heart.
Deepak Mathur, the doctor who conducted the post-mortem said that Sharma had suffered many internal wounds, but prima facie it appears that he died due to the heart injury. We have sent his viscera to Madhuban lab to ascertain the exact cause of his death.
The altercation, between the two, occurred over a glass of liquor near Jannat Hospital in Palam Vihar area around 9 pm. As Kumar and Sharma were partners in a pest control business, their dispute was over the same.
“The verbal duel turned physical as Kumar kicked and punched Sharma brutally until the latter collapsed. Kumar, then, fled the spot. Some passersby took Sharma to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead,” Surendra Pal Singh, DCP, West Gurgaon.
local police booked Kumar on charges of murder and arrested him from his residence. Kumar’s father, Khairati lal, is a retired DSP of Haryana Police.