Delhi Metro: 48-year-old man dies after alleged assault over senior citizen seat; two arrested

In a tragic incident a 48yearold man died after being allegedly assaulted by a retired IAS officer and his son over a dispute concerning a senior citizen seat inside a Delhi Metro train The incident happened at the Supreme Court Metro Station on October 8 according to the FIRAs per ANI the accused have been identified as Sanjay Pratap Singh 65 a retired IAS officer and his 36yearold son Siddharth Singh Both have been arrested in connection with the case according to the policeThe FIR stated that the deceased Pawan Sharma was travelling with his 65yearold mother Durga Sharma from Gurugram to their residence in Yamuna Vihar Delhi when the incident took placeAccording to Durga Sharmas complaint to the police at around 4 pm on October 8 the mother and son boarded a Metro train at Dwarka Sector 21 to return home and were seated on a seat reserved for senior citizensAccused boarded the train from Supreme Court Metro StationWhen the train reached the Supreme Court Metro Station two men boarded it The complainant described one of them as elderly and the other as youngerAccording to the complaint the two men allegedly spoke rudely to the mother and son and asked them to vacate the seats Pawan objected to the manner in which they were speaking and said that they would vacate the seats following which he and his mother began getting upThe FIR further states that Pawan made a remark to the elderly man following which the latter allegedly grabbed him by the collar and slapped himWhen Pawan objected to the assault the younger man accompanying the elderly accused allegedly caught him by the neck and punched him repeatedly in the chestDurga Sharma alleged that when she tried to intervene and stop the assault on her son the elderly man held her hands preventing her from intervening as per ANIAccording to the complaint Pawan suddenly collapsed on the floor of the Metro train and became unconscious Passengers raised an alarm following which Metro staff arrived at the spot and placed him on a stretcher Both alleged assailants were taken off the trainBoth the accused were arrestedThe two men were subsequently identified as Sanjay Pratap Singh son of Mahendra Pratap Singh and his son Siddharth Singh according to police recordsDurga Sharma accompanied her son in a Centralised Accident and Trauma Services CATS ambulance to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash LNJP Hospital However doctors declared Pawan dead upon arrival the complaint statedThe officer subsequently reached the hospital and collected the medicolegal case MLC report of Pawan Sharma a resident of Yamuna Vihar DelhiThe MLC recorded multiple tiny bruises on the victims right cheek bruises on his chest near the neck and a small abrasion on his righthand thumb The medical report also noted that he was unconscious and unresponsive and was unfit to make a statementThe victims body was preserved in the mortuary at LNJP Hospital The police also initiated an inspection of the place of occurrence by the crime team and the Forensic Science Laboratory FSL teamFollowing the incident an FIR was registered at the Supreme Court Metro Police Station on October 9 The FIR names Sanjay Pratap Singh and Siddharth Singh as the accused Both have been arrested and sent to jail according to the information provided by the police as per ANIThe investigation is still underway With inputs from ANI