New Delhi: A delivery partner with food delivery app, Zomato and a private security guard at a housing society in Noida were arrested on Sunday after a fight between them, said the police officials, reported news agency PTI. The arrests were made after a purported video of the incident was widely shared on social media which showed the delivery executive and the security guard exchanging blows and thrashing each other with sticks amid drizzles.
The incident comes the latest in a series of episodes of conflicts and fights caught on camera in recent months involving private security guards of housing societies in the society.
“The fight broke out around 12 pm at the main gate of the Gardenia society under Sector 39 police station limits over an argument about entry of the food delivery executive,” Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Noida) Ashutosh Dwivedi said.
“Both of them have been taken into police custody in a preventive action under CrPC section 151 (prevention of commission of cognizable offence) and are being produced before the local magistrate,” Dwivedi told the news agency.
He added that the police are further investigating in detail the root cause of the argument which blew into a fight.
Delivery executive Sabi Singh and security guard Ram Vinay Sharma have also been booked under Criminal Procedure Code Sections 107 (related to maintenance of peace and public tranquillity) and 116 (magistrate's inquiry into the truth of information upon which action has been taken), officials said.
Earlier on Saturday, the police had taken into custody two women below the age of 30 years after a purported video of them manhandling a private security guard of Ajnara Homes society in Sector 121 went viral. The women, who were allegedly drunk at the time of the incident, were furious at the guard over entry of their car, which did not have a society sticker on it.
On Friday, the police had arrested a bank manager and a security guard of Supertech Capetown in Noida’s Sector 74 following a conflict under CrPC section 151. On Wednesday night, a food delivery executive was assaulted by four private security guards at Sector 62's GAIL society. While the police were alerted about it, the matter was resolved with a compromise between the two sides, according to officials.