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Delhi Delivery Worker Dies After Alleged Assault Over Torn Note

Police added Section 108 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita to the FIR to pursue abetment of suicide charges.

Overview

  • A 24-year-old Flipkart Minutes delivery partner, Sameer Hussain, recorded a video recounting an alleged assault over a torn ₹10 note and later consumed a poisonous substance.
  • Police received a PCR call about the attack on the night of October 4 and prepared a medico-legal case and FIR at Kalyanpuri station shortly after midnight on October 5.
  • Hussain was admitted to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital on October 5 and died on October 20, after which investigators revised the charges.
  • Delhi Police identified and arrested two men, named by officials as Rakesh alias Bunti (30) and Rampal Singh (65), in connection with the incident.
  • The case has drawn public and family demands for justice and raised wider questions about the legal protection and dignity of delivery and gig-economy workers.