A delivery executive, who allegedly consumed a poisonous substance after he was slapped for not accepting a torn Rs 10 note from a customer, died on Tuesday — a day before his 24th birthday — police said. The customer and his neighbour who allegedly assaulted the youth have been arrested, they said.

The alleged incident occurred on October 4, when Sameer Hussain, who worked with Flipkart Minutes, went to deliver an order — a Bru coffee jar — to Rampal Singh, 65, in east Delhi’s Vinod Nagar. Police said that Hussain allegedly recorded some videos and recounted the incident. The clips were later found on his phone, they said.

“When I reached, I asked him whether he would make the payment in cash or UPI. He started putting together currency notes. I waited for 15 minutes, because he was an elderly man,” he says in one of the clips. He says that Singh gave him a torn Rs 10 note, and when he asked him to exchange it, he misbehaved.

“He told me to either take it or leave.…