On Friday evening, driver Rakesh Dayal, a resident of Aya Nagar and father of two, was beaten to death, allegedly by employees of the banquet hall for popping balloons used for decoration. "There were four people, including the manager of the banquet hall. Their party was already over (and there was no use for the balloons)," said Amit Dayal, Rakesh's cousin.
He added, "The police refused to conduct a postmortem; they were even refusing to lodge an FIR until yesterday. Today they have said they have filed one, but we are yet to see a copy of it."
Around afternoon, a crowd had assembled outside the Metro station, blocking traffic. Sometime after 3.30pm and before 4pm, a fraction of the mob set the banquet hall ablaze. The hall was empty at the time and no one was hurt in the incident. Some 20 fire tenders were rushed to the spot and they took a while to douse the fire.
Trains stopped running between Yamuna Bank and Vaishali stations from 4.20pm to 6.20pm. A Delhi Metro spokesperson said, "Fire officials wanted to shut down the overhead electricity line so that they could use the fire tenders safely."
By 6pm, the blaze was brought under control, but trains were not stopping at the Karkardooma station. Outside the station, the mob was getting more and more agitated. "We'll stop traffic now. No one will be allowed to go," said Ramrati, Rakesh's neighbour.
Cops tried to defuse the crisis by talking the mob out of the situation; but the parleys broke down and soon, the mob was clashing with the cops. Cops resorted to a mild truncheon charge around 6.40pm and even lobbed teargas shells. They managed to drive the crowd into a lane that crosses under the Metro line, past the halls and forced the shops along the way to close down. The mob returned the aggression by pelting the police with bricks and stones.
Additional DCP (east) Ashish Muhammad said they had lodged a murder case and needed some time to probe: something that the crowd was not willing to give. "We will now file a case of rioting. This was the third incident of rioting at Karkardooma in the last two years," the DCP said.
A police source said they are planning to invoke the Railway Act, as railway property was damaged.
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