UP: Two Customers Injured In Knife Attack At Noida Restaurant, Three Arrested

The police have so far arrested three of the attackers in connection with the incident.

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New Delhi: Two residents of Delhil were hospitalised after suffering injuries in a knife attack on them at a restaurant in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida, officials said on Monday. The police have so far arrested three of the attackers in connection with the incident, PTI reported.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Noida), Ranvijay Singh, said that the incident had taken place on Saturday night when the three people from Delhi had come to a restaurant in the city, PTI reported.

“A fight broke out between the customer trio and the restaurant's owner over some issue. After that, the restaurant's staffers attacked the customers with sharp weapons,” he added.

The top cop said the police lodged an FIR in the case immediately and added that three people have been arrested.

“Further legal proceedings are being carried out,” Singh said, adding the condition of the injured customers was stable now.

Shailendra Pal, the complainant, said that he and his friends Rohit Nishad and Vishal Gautam had gone to ‘Food Zilla Chai Sutta’ restaurant and cafe in Sector 15 for dinner on Saturday night.

“We had ordered a cold coffee and a shake but they had turned out to be bad in taste. When we reported this to the restaurant owner, he started fighting with us, hurled abuses and called in three or four of his staffers for the fight,” 23-year-old Pal claimed.

“Somehow we managed to escape but they caught hold of Vishal and attacked him with a knife. Rohit and I went back to save him but then Rohit was also attacked. Both of them were injured and taken to a hospital for treatment,” he alleged in his complaint to the police.

An FIR was lodged at the Phase I police station against the owner of the restaurant and its staffers on the basis of the complaint.

They have been booked under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 324 (causing hurt by dangerous weapons), 504 (intentional insult to provoke breach of peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

This incident took place five days after an attack on a private firm’s executive at a restro-bar in a mall allegedly after an argument over the bill.

The 30-year-old executive had died of the bare-handed attack by employees of the restro-bar and the mall.