NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has apprehended two men, including a director of an aviation services firm and a dhaba owner, in connection with the assault on a serving Brigadier and his son in Southwest Delhi’s Vasant Vihar on Saturday.The accused have been identified as Satender alias Sonu (49) and Sanjay Sharma (56), both residents of Mehram Nagar.According to police, Satender is a director at Chaudhary Aviation Pvt Ltd, a firm that provides aviation services such as chartered and cargo flights, and is also involved in the sale and purchase of aircraft and their parts. Sanjay, on the other hand, runs a dhaba in the area.“The offending Mercedes vehicle used in the incident has also been seized,” police said. Speaking to TOI brigadier’s wife had said the incident took place at 9.45 pm on Saturday when the family had stepped out for a stroll. She was walking slightly behind her husband and son when they noticed two men consuming liquor inside a car parked near the society gate. In her complaint to police, she alleged that when they objected and asked the two not to do so, the men allegedly misbehaved, used abusive language and passed remarks that outraged her modesty.Following the confrontation, the family dialled 112, the police helpline, and a PCR vehicle reached the spot at 10.15 pm. However, the situation escalated in the presence of police personnel, the woman alleged. The occupants of the car talked to the cops and even made them speak to someone over the phone, after which no action was taken against the two, she claimed, adding that the PCR personnel, too, behaved improperly with her during the interaction.Soon after, two more cars arrived and seven to eight men, allegedly known to the two men who were drinking, stepped out. “They threw my son to the ground and started beating him,” the woman alleged. He suffered multiple injuries.When the brigadier intervened, two-three men surrounded him and assaulted him as well, leaving him with bruises, including on his elbow. His son also alleged that one of the men pointed towards him just before the attack began.The assault, she claimed, continued for around 20 minutes in full view of the PCR personnel, who did not intervene. She alleged in her complaint that during the attack, the accused continued to pass vulgar remarks at her while she tried to protect her husband and son.An FIR was registered under sections 115 (voluntarily causing hurt), 126 (wrongful restraint), 351 (criminal intimidation), 79 (word, gesture or act intended to insult modesty of a woman), 191 (rioting) and 190 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of BNS at Vasant Vihar police station.
