Gurugram: 5 ‘drunk’ cops beat up elderly couple for not lighting hookah in Fazilpur village

GURUGRAM: Five off-duty policemen, believed to be drunk, allegedly barged into an elderly couple’s house and thrashed them after the two of them refused to light up a hookah in Fazilpur village of Badshapur on Wednesday night.
All five policemen have been suspended pending departmental inquiry. Police said three of them — sub-inspector Shri Bhagwan, head constable Manoj Kumar, and constable Ravinder Kumar — were arrested. Two others, whose identities were not disclosed by the police, are yet to be held.
In the complaint, Rahul Bedi told police he returned to his house around 10.30pm on Wednesday and saw that his father Paramjit (50) was screaming and his mother Sunita Bedi (48) was crying for help.
“The accused tried to flee when they saw that I had returned home,” Rahul said.
Rahul, a property dealer, told TOI on Thursday that the cops had barged into their house and asked for a hookah. When Paramjit refused, the cops — who were allegedly in an inebriated condition — pushed Sunita to light a hookah that was in the house and thrashed the elderly man following .
Rahul said he and some villagers managed to overpower three of the accused who claimed to be policemen and boasted of being close to senior cops. Two of them managed to escape.
“The accused hit my father, who is a heart patient, with curtain rods. They pushed my mother back and forced her to fill tobacco in hookah. We took my father to the hospital for further treatment and he was discharged on Thursday,” he said. The villagers let the three go after a police team reached the spot and assured them of fair investigation. According to the FIR, the three arrested cops were sent for a medical examination. Police did not specify the results.
All five have been booked under sections 147 (rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.
Assistant commissioner of police (Sadar) Sanjeev Kumar said on Thursday that the department has taken a serious note of the matter. “A departmental inquiry has been initiated against them and they have been suspended. Police will investigate the matter properly,” he said.