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Four Arrested After Road-Rage Attack on British Airways Staff in Faridabad

Four Daultabad men are in custody following a Faridabad road‑rage assault that left a company driver stabbed.

Overview

  • Police identified the suspects as Arun Kumar, Gaurav Kumar, Sumit and Vipin, all in their early 20s and residents of Daultabad village in Old Faridabad.
  • British Airways employees Siddhant Acharya and Riyan (also reported as Riyan Taneja) were beaten, and their driver, Amresh Kumar, was stabbed twice in the abdomen.
  • Amresh received initial treatment at a private hospital in Faridabad before being referred to the AIIMS Trauma Centre in New Delhi.
  • An attempt-to-murder case was registered at Sector 17 police station, and Vipin was produced in court and placed on one-day police remand for interrogation.
  • Accounts differ on the incident time, with police citing 11:40 a.m. on January 2 and other reports describing it as around midnight near Old Chowk, as the investigation continues.