A 23-year-old Rapido bike taxi driver from Delhi’s Uttam Nagar was beaten to death by three men over an unpaid loan balance of ₹8,000, police said, in an incident that took place on June 26. The victim, Mohammed Uzaib, had borrowed ₹50,000 from one of the accused to meet expenses related to his wife’s delivery and had repaid ₹42,000 of the amount before the assault.
The three accused have been identified as Sandeep, Lalit, and Mohit.
According to police, the three men abducted Uzaib and took him to an isolated location in Najafgarh, where they assaulted him for approximately eight hours. He was beaten with sticks, stabbed with a sharp object, and sustained injuries to his internal organs. His body was later dumped outside his family’s home in Uttam Nagar. His family took him to a hospital, where he died from his injuries.
Police said the accused had visited Uzaib’s home 15 days before the attack, in his absence, and had threatened to “break all his bones” if the remaining amount was not repaid. Uzaib had been the sole breadwinner of his family following the death of his father.
His mother, Rabiya, recounted the attack in distress. “Those evil people beat him so badly. He must have screamed ‘Mummy, Mummy’ all night in pain. I could not save my child,” she said, adding that she had never so much as raised her hand against her son.
Uzaib’s wife, who had recently delivered the couple’s first child, has been reported to be in a state of shock following her husband’s death. Their newborn son will not know his father.
Uzaib’s brother, Zaib, said the family had no indication of how severe the threat had become, and described the manner in which Uzaib’s body was returned to the family home as a shock that the family had not yet processed.
Police have registered a case and investigations are underway. No confirmation has been given on whether the three accused have been taken into custody at the time of publication.
