Man thrashed by group of youths for asking toll

Greater Noida: A 25-year-old toll staffer deployed at Beel Akbarpur toll plaza on the Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE) in Dadri was allegedly beaten up by eight persons who arrived in three vehicles after a local youth had an argument with one of the toll staffers over the payment of toll on Tuesday evening.
Police said the incident took place around 6.30pm when the main accused, Om Bhati, was travelling towards Chithera village in Dadri from Haryana.
Om was asked to pay the toll at the toll plaza but he refused to do so saying that locals staying within the periphery of the villages neighbouring the EPE were exempt from paying the toll.
Dadri SHO Dinesh Singh said the argument escalated and the youth called up his friends who arrived in a Scorpio and a scooter and thrashed the toll staffer brutally.
The accused have been booked for rioting, unlawful assembly, criminal intimidation and culpable homicide not amounting to murder.