Road rage: Youths rough up city bureaucrat, wife
Ram Car
Into Their SUV, Accuse Official Of Driving Rashly
In an apparent
case of road rage, a senior DANICS official and his wife were harassed and
roughed up by a few youths on August Kranti Marg on Wednesday night. The youths
first rammed their car into the official's Ford EcoSport and then accused him
of driving rashly .
They
asked the official to pay for the damage and when his wife tried to intervene,
the youths abused her as well.One of the youths made a vi deo of the woman and
even allegedly touched her inappropriately .
The
officer, currently posted with Delhi government, said that he left his house in
Asiad Village around 11.15pm with his wife and two daughters. His elder
daughter was supposed to board a flight for a trip to Spain with her
classmates. She was supposed to reach school by 11.30pm, after which the class
was to leave for the airport.
“While I
was crossing the traffic light, it turned amber before I could reach the other
side. A Swift car suddenly zigzagged towards us and rammed my car. The driver
then stopped his vehicle ahead of mine and four youths stepped out and started
abusing us,“ said the official. When he tried calling the PCR, the youths
heckled him.
Fortunately,
a Delhi Police sub-inspector who was passing by stopped and intervened. In the
meantime, the youths called their friends.“Soon 10-15 men came and started
arguing with the policeman. I tried to pacify the men, but the cop advised me
to stay away while he controlled the group,“ the official said.
One of
the youths, later identified as Rahul, started making a video of the argument
on his phone. He then stopped near the official's wife and started shooting
her.When she protested, he pushed her repeatedly and even touched her
inappropriately in presence of her minor daughters.
Hearing
his wife's calls for help, the official pushed away the youth and asked his
wife and daughter to leave. “A taxi driver passing by offered to drop my
daughter at her school and did not even charge us for it. I asked my wife to
return to the police station,“ said the official.
Soon,
cops arrived and one of the youths was taken to Hauz Khas police station.
During interrogation, he tried to mislead the policemen saying that he was
alone when the incident happened. However, he later revealed that one Sagar
Pawar was driving the vehicle and they were accompanied by Rahul and
Mahender.All of them were drunk and going to their homes in Shahpur Jat.
Additional
DCP Nupur Prasad said that a case under IPC sections 354A (physical contact and
advances involving unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures), 506 (criminal
intimidation), 509 (outraging the modesty of a woman), 279 (rash driving) has
been registered against the men. The youths were produced before a court and
sent to custody for 14 days.
Police
said that two of the accused are pursuing BBA from a private university in Noida
and the other two own businesses in south Delhi.
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