Delhi journalist's parents thrashed on street over parking: 'Our dignity compromised'

A Delhi-based journalist took to Twitter on Thursday to say that it was her parents who were seen in a viral video, being beaten up on the street by a family over a parking dispute.

Flagging safety concerns, she said the accused were released on bail.

“Ashamed to acknowledge that this is me and my parents who were being thrashed in broad daylight. I want to take up the case against Harjap Singh under section 509 of IPC. Ikjot, Kudrat and Harmeet Kaur were equally a part of this crime. I am helpless,” Kaushiki Goel tweeted.

The viral video, with over a million views, shows an altercation between a couple and another family in a residential street in southeast Delhi's Amar Colony area. A man holding a wooden stick is seen asking the husband to remove a parked car. Even as the couple is trying to negotiate, the stick-weilding man hits the husband. When the wife tries to shield him, women from the attacker’s side join the fight and push the wife. They are even seen dragging her by her hair.