Tribune News Service

Rewari, September 13

American national Mathew Evrat Vicary was assaulted with an iron rod by two miscreants with an intention to loot him on the Railway Road here on Saturday night.

The assailants fled after perpetrating the crime while Vicary was admitted to the trauma centre for treatment. The crime was perpetrated when Vicary, who is associated with a Faridabad-based NGO, was going to Jaipur from Delhi in an express train for some official assignment.

As the train halted at Rewari railway station, he got down and came out from the railway station. “Two teenagers attacked Vicary with an intention to loot him. He suffered injuries on his head and fell down. Thereafter, the assailants fled. Some passerby informed the police about the incident and an injured Vicary was rushed to the trauma centre for treatment,” sources said, adding he got 13 stitches on his head.

After getting medical treatment, Vicary left for Jaipur today afternoon. Earlier, the GRP had lodged a complaint in this regard, but it was later transferred to the local police for further investigation. The police have started investigation after booking a case under relevant sections of the IPC against two unidentified assaulters on Vicary’s complaint. The information about the crime was also sent to American embassy in Delhi.

“Vicary is a teacher with an NGO working in Faridabad and a routine visitor on this route, hence, he disembarked from the train when it reached Rewari railway station. Though the exact reason behind the assault is yet to be ascertained, no evidence of loot has been found during preliminary investigations,” Rewari SP Manbir Singh Sheoran said.