Gurugram road horror: Army ex-Colonel assaulted with beer bottles by six men - 'Being a veteran ...'

• Retired Army colonel attacked after minor car crash in Gurugram
• Victim forced to transfer Rs 30,000 and hospitalized
• Five accused arrested; police registered an FIR

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A small collision between two cars on a Gurugram road on Saturday night turned into a violent assault, leaving a retired Army colonel hospitalised. The victim, Anil Yadav, 50, alleged that he was attacked with beer bottles, forced to transfer Rs 30,000 through UPI, and severely beaten after his car lightly grazed another vehicle.

The incident took place when Yadav was returning alone from a private hospital in Gurugram, where he had gone to attend to his ailing father. According to his complaint, a car travelling in the lane to his right suddenly swerved left.

Colonel Anil Yadav, a Veteran in late 50s, on the night of 21 February 2026 was assaulted by a group of six men on the road while returning from the Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon after attending to his ailing father. He was driving alone when a car in the lane on his right…

— Colonel Rohit Dev (RDX) 🇮🇳 (@RDXThinksThat) February 23, 2026

“I was driving alone when a car in the lane on my right suddenly swerved to the left, and though I tried to apply the brakes and avoid it, my car touched it,” Yadav said.

Assault with beer bottles

Yadav said he stepped out of his car to inspect the damage and settle the matter peacefully. However, the situation quickly escalated. “Being a veteran, it comes naturally to me to address the situation up front, so I opened my door and got out to inspect the damage. Six men alighted from the other car, carrying beer bottles and started arguing with me even though I was open to compensating for the minor damage monetarily.

“But they had other designs and began assaulting me with bottles and punches. They also damaged my car with beer bottles, breaking the windshield and lights, etc.,” he alleged.

According to Yadav, the attackers pushed him into their car and tried to kidnap him. However, they were unable to do so as traffic began to pile up at the spot, NDTV reported.

“They had to escape as traffic was piling up, but only after getting Rs 30,000 transferred through my UPI account. I had to be rushed to a hospital and am admitted there after the emergency medical protocol,” he said.

Allegations of police inaction

In a post on X, Yadav accused the police of initially failing to act immediately. He wrote that the investigating officer did “not find time to come to the hospital and take my statement, leave alone an FIR. The woman IO sincerely believes that I am the one who beat up six guys after hitting their car and quietly drove away”.

He also expressed concern over public safety. “With these kinds of men on the streets, no one is safe and our sisters and daughters are especially vulnerable to such unprovoked, ‘spur of the moment’ violence. I, being a hardened Mil Veteran, could endure the ordeal, but I dread to think that if, instead of me, there was a young lady returning from work. What would they have done to her,” he wrote.

Gurugram police said that an FIR was registered under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Sector 50 police station on Monday. Five accused have been arrested so far.

The arrested men have been identified as Pankaj, 23, Vikas, 21, and Nikhil, 21, residents of Rewari district, and Sahil, 22, and Ankit Kumar, 22, residents of Mahendergarh district.

“During interrogation, the accused revealed that they had come to a wedding in Badshahpur on February 21 and the complainant was beaten up by them after the accident.

“The accused, Pankaj, Sahil, and Ankit, work at Nippon Company in Rewari. Vikas is a second-year BA student, and Nikhil is a second-year BCom student. We are questioning the accused,” a Gurugram police spokesperson said.