Fight over parking takes communal turn in Delhi's Chawri Bazaar, tension prevails

Tension prevailed Monday in Old Delhi's Chawri Bazaar area after a fight over parking a scooter took a communal turn and a temple was vandalised in the locality, police said Monday.

Security has been beefed in the Lal Kuan locality to prevent any flare-up, they said.

The trouble began late Sunday night when Aas Mohammad (20) was parking his scooter outside a building. Sanjeev Gupta, a resident of the building, who runs an eatery stall there, objected to it, witnesses said.

Gupta's wife Babita said when her husband objected to parking the vehicle near the stall, Mohammad left, but returned promptly with more men who were "probably drunk" and beat him up.

Saqib, a 27-year-old software engineer and a local, narrated a different version.

"When Mohammad was beaten up, he and his other family members went to police station and filed a case," he said.

A video surfaced online which purportedly shows a man allegedly being beaten up by some people, who were suspected to be drunk, over a parking