A 22-year-old man was thrashed allegedly by a group of five men for speaking with his friend in fluent English while dropping him off at a five-star hotel in lutyens' Delhi, police said on Monday. Police said that the incident was reported in the early hours on Saturday.
Three people have been arrested in this connection, police said. According to police, Varun Gulati, a resident of Noida, had come to the five-star hotel in Connaught Place to drop off his friend Aman in his friend Daksh's car. While Gulati was walking back to the hotel after seeing off Daksh, a group of five men, who were inebriated, rounded him up. They asked him why was he speaking in English, police said. Both the sides got into an argument and the men assaulted Gulati.
The assailants fled the spot in a vehicle but the victim managed to note down the number of the vehicle, they said.