Overview
- Kapil, 31, was found unconscious after an assault in Palam Village on October 4 and was declared dead at Indira Gandhi Hospital in Dwarka.
- Officers traced a Hyundai i10 from an eyewitness-provided registration number to the owner’s brother-in-law and arrested Karan Arora in Najafgarh within hours.
- Arora, a Gurugram club manager reported to have a 65% hearing and speech disability, was booked under BNS Section 105 for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
- Police say he admitted during sign-language–assisted questioning that he attacked the scooterist after perceiving offensive gestures.
- The vehicle was seized, Arora was produced in court and remanded to judicial custody, and investigators are awaiting the post-mortem report.