Logo: ROAD RAGE Pune: Two men on a bike and two pedestrians kicked, punched and attacked a chartered accountant from Vikhroli in Mumbai with a wooden stick after his car inadvertently splashed water on them as it drove through a deep pothole in front of Jan Seva Bank at Keshavnagar in Mundhwa around 5.45pm on Monday. Police said the chartered accountant (CA), Yash Manwani (29), hails from Bhopal and stays in Vikhroli.
He suffered injuries on his back, waist, left leg and right hand. He lodged a complaint with the Mundhwa police after getting treated for injuries at a private hospital in Kharadi on Tuesday. "Based on some witnesses' accounts, we identified three of the four attackers.
One of them, a casual worker from Keshavnagar in Mundhwa, has been detained," said investigating officer Ramesh Ugale on Wednesday. Manwani, working with a private firm in Vikhroli, told TOI, "I was going to Keshavnagar to pick up my brother and sister on the occasion of Rakshabandhan. Approaching the Janaseva Bank, my car landed in a deep pothole filled with water and the resultant splash drenched the duo on the bike and the two pedestrians passing by my vehicle.
The car driver, biker (with the pillion) and the pedestrians were heading in the same direction. " He said, "The biker chased my car for some distance and angrily kicked the driver's side of car, prompting me to stop. As I rolled down my car window and started explaining that I was not at fault, the biker and the pillion rider picked up.