NEW DELHI: A 24-year-old delivery executive died on October 20, more than two weeks after he was allegedly slapped following a dispute over a torn Rs 10 note in east Delhi’s East Vinod Nagar. Police have arrested two men in connection with the case.Sameer Hussain had called the police control room (PCR) at around 11.03pm on October 4, alleging that two residents had assaulted him after he refused to accept a torn currency note as payment for a delivery.In a video recorded during the investigation, Sameer recounted his version of the incident, saying he had gone to deliver coffee to an elderly customer who took around 10-15 minutes to arrange the payment.The customer eventually handed him cash that included a torn Rs 10 note. When Sameer objected, the customer allegedly told him to “take it or leave it”.Sameer said he offered to cancel the order and questioned why it had been placed if the payment could not be made properly. He alleged that the customer abused him before another man arrived and slapped him multiple times. The man also allegedly mocked Sameer over his middle-class background.Police later received information that Sameer had allegedly consumed a poisonous substance. He was admitted to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital on October 5 and died on October 20.A medico-legal case was prepared shortly after midnight on October 5, and an FIR was registered at Kalyanpuri police station the same day.Following Sameer’s death, police added Section 108 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which deals with abetment of suicide, to the case.The two arrested men have been identified as Rakesh alias Bunti (30) and Rampal Singh (65).
