1. The first information report (FIR) No.76/2007 of the subject case was registered on the compliant of Phool Singh, a delivery-man, engaged by a firm named and styled as Kalkaji Gas Service, the duties entrusted to him being to take gas cylinders from the godown of his employer in a three wheeler scooter (TSR) and deliver the same to the respective consumers, as per instructions.

2. It is alleged that, on 16.03.2007, he having carried twenty-two gas cylinders from the godown of his employer, had reached near house No.1520 in C.R. Park, New Delhi at about 1:45 p.m., he was accosted by four persons who had come to the place in an Indica car bearing registration No. DL-8CG-7982. He alleged that the said four persons had introduced themselves as press reporters of newspaper Hindustan People and confronted him with accusation that he was engaged in illicit business of taking out gas from the cylinders which he was deployed to deliver. They allegedly forcibly took out two gas cylinders from the vehicle and started making a video film with a camera they were carrying and while doing so extended threats that they would defame him by publishing this information in the press and, if h