NEW DELHI: A 35-year-old businessman and his two brothers were allegedly beaten up by the drivers of a fleet of Toyota Qualis vans attached to a renowned call-centre at Gurgaon in Haryana in the early hours of Thursday. The Gurgaon police have received a complaint and are awaiting a medical report to register a case.

According to the complainant Gagan Mathawan, who runs G.M. Furnishing firm, he was on his way home to Shushant Lok along with his wife, Anamika, and two brothers when an over-speeding Qualis allegedly brushed past his Subaru Forester near the Haryana-Delhi border. "We were returning from a ring-ceremony when the incident occurred. We followed the Qualis, intercepted it at a distance and chided the driver for rash driving, after that he sped away. Thinking that the matter was over there and then, we were heading home when near Sikandar roundabout in Gurgaon the same vehicle blocked our way around 1-30 a.m. Before we could make out what the matter was, we saw over a dozen people getting down from about eight other Qualis parked nearby. While my wife remained inside the vehicle, they forced three of us out of the vehicle and thrashed us. One of them hit me on the head.''

As there was traffic jam due to the vehicles parked along the road, the culprits soon fled from the scene. Mr. Mathawan, who was bleeding from the head, was taken to a nearby hospital, from where he was referred to Max Hospital at Panchsheel in South Delhi for CT Scan. After the examination, he returned to Gurgaon around 5-30 a.m. and lodged a complaint in this regard.

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