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Alleged attack by a Nihang left youth disabled & jobless

NEW DELHI: A 21-year-old resident of Kundli was also a victim of an attack allegedly by a Nihang Sikh this April. The youth was left incapable of using his left arm properly because of which he lost his job. Following the killing of a 36-year-old man at Singhu border on Friday, the accused in the case also being a Nihang Sikh, the Kundli youth recalled to TOI the incident. “I worked at an office in Haryana where I had to prepare reports on Excel sheets. After the sword attack, I was unable to use my left hand properly. Since I can no longer use the computer, I am currently unemployed,” he claimed. The copy of the FIR, accessed by TOI, says that on April 12, the youth and his friend were going to TDI Mall on a bike. There was a traffic snarl in the area, so the two asked a policeman to allow them to pass through. “When they reached a drain at a road cut, one Nihang Sikh stopped their bike and told them that they could not move further from there,” the FIR reads. The youth’s friend requested the Nihang Sikh to let them proceed pleading they were getting late for work. “But when my friend moved the bike, the Nihang Sikh took out a sword,” the youth claimed. According to the FIR, when attacked with a sword, the youth tried to dodge the blows with his left hand and suffered severe injuries. TOI saw his medical report, which says, “There was incised wound at left distal forearm with injury flexor tendon of the index, middle, ring and little finger with injury of ulnar nerve.” A case was registered at Kundli police station under sections 323, 324, 341, 307 and 506 of the IPC for attempt to murder, causing hurt and criminal intimidation.

The Times of India

2021-10-17

Delhi