Gurgaon: NRI beaten to death, ‘fight over who can walk in the area’

The ground floor had been given on rent, while he would stay on the upper floor with his family whenever he visited Gurgaon. The incident in question had taken place on Wednesday evening, when Balaya had gone to Phase II to drop off his son for swimming lessons at Delhi Public School. While his son was in class, Balaya decided to take a stroll in the area, police said.

However, a security guard at a bungalow confronted him and told him he could not walk in there if he was not a resident. Police said the two got into an argument. The guard rang the bell of the house, summoning a 25-year-old man who lived there. “The argument eventually became violent, and both men began to beat up Balaya, who eventually fell to the ground, unconscious,” said PRO Boken.

“The accused left the spot. Balaya was spotted lying by the side of the road by some local residents, who alerted police and rushed him to a private hospital, where he was declared brought dead,” he said. Police identified the accused and the dead through CCTV footage in the area. While the security guard has been identified as 46-year-old Pradeep Singh, the occupant of the house has been identified as 25-year-old Manik Khosla. “Khosla is currently unemployed, and was planning to launch a start-up soon,” said Boken.

The postmortem, conducted on Thursday evening, indicated that cardiac arrest was the cause of death. However, “samples have been sent for further testing”, said police.