A 34-year-old parking attendant was thrashed with a bat allegedly by a physical education teacher at a private school, after the latter was asked to pay a parking fee of Rs 60. The incident took place on Wednesday night near PVR Priya in Basant Lok Market, officials said, adding that the accused was arrested Thursday. DCP (Southwest) Manoj C said they received a PCR call regarding the incident around 10.30 pm on Wednesday, after which a police team reached the spot and found that the injured, Vikas Thakur, a resident of Kusumpur Pahadi, had been taken to AIIMS Trauma Centre with serious injuries and admitted in the red zone for treatment. The DCP said he had sustained an injury in the right temporal region and was found unfit for statement. The parking lot is being run by the MCD. Subsequently, police recorded the statement of an eyewitness, Manoj Kumar (34), who stated that around 7 pm on Wednesday, a man driving a Honda Amaze parked his car in the area and Thakur created a parking receipt for them. “He (the owner) came back around 9.30 pm in a drunken condition to take his car. Kumar asked him to pay the parking fee of Rs 60 before leaving,” police quoted Kumar as saying. The DCP said that following this, the accused allegedly began abusing and threatening Kumar and Thakur came and intervened. “The accused then took out a bat from his car and chased both Kumar and Thakur, eventually catching hold of Thakur and hitting him repeatedly,” the DCP said. According to Kumar, the car entered the parking lot at 6.49 pm and exited at 9.40 pm, with the parking fee coming to Rs 60. A case under IPC section 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide) was lodged at Vasant Vihar police station and the registration number of the car was analysed after tracking CCTV footage in the area. The vehicle was traced to one Vikram Jeet Singh (28), a resident of Saidulajab in Mehrauli. He works as a PT teacher at a private school in Saket. Police said he was arrested on Thursday and his vehicle and the weapon of offence, the bat, was seized from him. “He has been sent to judicial custody and the role of other persons is being investigated,” the DCP said. A senior police officer said the other occupant of the car who was present with Singh is also being questioned. “During initial interrogation, the accused said he lost his cool and started beating the victim,” the officer added. A senior MCD official said they are looking into the matter.
