At gunpoint by four men in Delhi's South Extension and stole an Audi Q7 SUV. (Representational Image)
An Audi Q7 SUV was stolen at gunpoint by four men in Delhi's South Extension area on Sunday, the police said, adding that the driver of the car was beaten up and then thrown out of the car.
The incident took place when the driver was waiting outside a popular restaurant in South Extension where his employer, a senior Supreme Court lawyer, and his friends had gone for dinner.
The driver, Ravi Shankar, saw his employer's friends coming out of the restaurant, started the engine of the Audi Q7 and as he was about to move towards the restaurant to pick up his employer, a man approached him asking for directions, a police official said.
As Mr Shankar rolled down the window, the man pulled out a gun and hijacked the car with three others. The robbers pinned down the driver and kept hitting him with the pistol as they drove around for nearly 20 km and dumped him near Jwala Heri in west Delhi around two hours later.
The robbers then fled with the lawyer's SUV, which he had purchased around three months ago. The lawyer is the son of a former Additional Solicitor General, the official said.
The driver alleged that he kept asking for help from several passers-by, including two policemen on patrol duty, who instead of taking him to a hospital, citing jurisdiction issues, rushed him to a petrol pump near Mianwali Nagar police station, from where he called up his employer and informed him about the matter.
"A case has been registered in connection with the matter and police are looking into CCTV footage to ascertain identity of the accused persons." a senior official said.