BENGALURU: Just before the incident where a youth dragged a 71-year-old-man who had tangled to the formers two-wheeler for 750 meters following a road-rage case on Tuesday could be forgotten, Bengaluru on Friday witnessed another road-rage incident.A woman drove her car for nearly four kilometres with a man dangling on the bonnet of her car.
The man and the couple had fought each other after their cars came face to face on Ullala main road in west Bengaluru's Jnanabharati area in Karnataka and one of them was driving from the wrong direction.A case and a counter case have been registered in this connection with Jnanabharati police station.It was the youth who travelled on the bonnet filed the first complaint.
Identifying himself as Darshan S, 29, a businessman from Mariyappana Palya, Darshan accused the couple of instigating the fight.I own a Natural Ice cream and Pet shop store in Papareddy Palya.
Around 10.15am, I was driving towards the store when a car, jumping the signal and coming from the opposite direction on Ullala main road, blocked my way," Darshan stated in his complaint.He added, "I questioned the woman driver for the act and she showed middle finger to me and drove away.
I followed the car and blocked it.
Demanding an explanation for their act, I told the lady to apologise.
However, she refused and did not come out of the vehicle.
By then, my younger brother and two friends came to the spot.
A man, said to be the couple's friend, punched me in the face.
By then, police arrived on the spot and told us to come to the police station.""But the woman refused and tried to drive away.
Protesting, I sat on the bonnet of their car but she drove away.
I pleaded to stop saying I will fall down and may die.
Even the public, who watched, shouted at the woman, directing her to stop.
After driving for around four kilometers, she stopped the vehicle near Sankalpa hospital, Darshan said.
Police booked the woman and two men under different sections of Indian Penal Code including 307 (Attempt to murder).Next, the womans husband, a 34-year-old-businessman from MV Layout, filed the complaint.My wife was driving the car when another car, which came from the opposite direction at Ullala junction, blocked our way.
The traffic behind both the vehicles came to standstill.
Making way, my wife drove away and the man in the opposite car shouted at my wife.
My wife showed hand at him.
The man blocked our vehicle and abused us.
I called the police control room and two cops arrived.
Fearing for life, we decided to leave the place and as my wife drove, the driver from the other car sat on the bonnet.
We stopped the car near a hospital.
Then, the man with his friends attacked us, pulled my wifes cloth and smashed the windshield of our car, the husbands complaint read.Based on his complaint, police booked Darshan and three others under different sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) 354 (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 354B (Assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to disrobe).