{"id":303888,"date":"2018-10-08T07:33:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T07:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303888"},"modified":"2018-10-08T07:33:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T07:33:56","slug":"passenger-stabs-auto-driver-to-death-over-fare-dispute-in-delhis-connaught-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/passenger-stabs-auto-driver-to-death-over-fare-dispute-in-delhis-connaught-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger stabs auto driver to death over fare dispute in Delhi&#8217;s Connaught place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299838 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/lynched-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched-487x420.jpg 487w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A 26-year-old auto rickshaw driver Jahangir Alam was stabbed to death on October 7 night allegedly by a passenger at Kasturba Gandhi Marg near Connaught Place area following a dispute over fare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWhen the auto reached near \u2018Local\u2019 Restaurant, there was an argument over the night fare as well as the number of passengers Alam could carry in his auto. The argument ended with the teenagers stabbing Alam,\u201d said Madhur Verma, deputy commissioner of police (DCP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After noticing the auto driver bleeding, a passer by Ratan Singh Chauhan called up the police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chauhan added, &#8220;He was bleeding. He was not able to speak. We got scared and asked him what happened. He fell on the ground. He said a passenger stabbed him but he didn\u2019t who the person was.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police took auto-driver to Lady Hardinge Medical College, about 2 km away from the incident site, where he died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">DCP further added, while one of the suspects was caught near the crime scene and thrashed by the public before being handed over to the police, two others were caught by the police later, the fourth suspect is still on the run.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 26-year-old auto rickshaw driver Jahangir Alam was stabbed to death on October 7 night allegedly by a passenger at Kasturba Gandhi Marg near Connaught Place area following a dispute over fare. \u201cWhen the auto reached near \u2018Local\u2019 Restaurant, there was an argument over the night fare as well as the number of passengers Alam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[431,429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303890,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303888\/revisions\/303890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}