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 a quarrel and forced me to step out of my car.
I advised them to visit the nearby Keshavnagar police chowkey, but they refused. By this time, the two pedestrians also reached there and together, the four men abused and thrashed me." Manwani said the biker picked up a wooden stick lying nearby and assaulted him on his back and other parts of the body.
The biker also vandalised the right side front door of the car with a stick, he added. Thereafter, the biker and the three others left. Police officer Ugale said a police team reached the spot on receiving information about the incident and took the victim to a nearby private hospital.
"Manwani gave details of the incident but could not establish the identity of the attackers because they were not known to him," he said. The officer said there was no CCTV camera at the spot and based on the information given by witnesses, the police established the identity of three men and detained the suspect riding the bike. The identity of the fourth man would be established soon.
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