Cabbies assault man, his sister over road rage

City police booked a case of outraging the modesty of a woman and criminal assault against four persons including two cab drivers in Bellandur. The cabbies quarrelled with a brother-sister duo after the latter’s car brushed against a cabbie’s in Bellandur on Friday night.

Police named the accused as Manjegowda, Suresh, Shankar and another driver who is yet to be identified.

According to the police, the incident happened around 11.30 pm near Green Meadows Apartment on Haraluru Road. The brother-sister duo had come home in a Maruti Swift. After dropping the sister, the brother was trying to take a U-turn at a further distance, when his car brushed against a yellow-board Innova.

The driver of the car became furious and started quarrelling with the man in the Swift, after which he demanded Rs 25,000 in repairs. The sister who was at a distance was watching the scuffle involving her brother. She rushed to the spot and started arguing with the Innova’s driver.

A few cab drivers who stopped by came in support of the Innova driver and assaulted the brother-sister duo. Some even pulled the woman by her hair. The duo then rushed to the Bellandur police station and filed a complaint. While the police were taking up their case, the Innova driver stormed the police station and argued that the police take up his complaint too. He was detained and the police did not entertain his complaint.

Cabbies protest

The next morning, a large number of cab drivers gathered in front of the Bellandur police station and staged a protest demanding to accept the complaint of their fellow driver. “We have taken a complaint in writing from one of the drivers that it was the brother-sister duo who attacked the driver first. We will probe their version as well,” said a senior police officer.