AHMEDABAD: A 35-year-old Satellite resident was walking past
Satyagrah Chhavni
with her two children, when a man driving a car almost hit her daughter. When she asked him to drive carefully, he allegedly abused her and threatened to thrash her.
A complaint in this regard was filed with the police on Tuesday. Priyanka Thakur, a resident of
Sun Valley Apartment
near
Ramdevnagar Crossroads
, told police that the incident occurred when she was walking back home with her kids — Vishwajeet, 12, and Rajvi, 6, — from their tuition class on Tuesday afternoon. Thakur, whose husband is a cop, said that they walking past Satyagrah Chhavni when a man speeding in an SUV almost ran over Rajvi.
“He applied sudden brakes so close to my daughter that she got scared and began crying. When I asked the man to drive with care as he had almost hit my daughter, the man got down from the vehicle and began threatening me. He told me to go away orhe would pull my hair and beat me. When he began abusing me, my son objected to it and informed the man that my husband is a cop. Despite that, the man continued to abuse me and threatened to thrash me publicly. He said that my husband cannot touch him even though he was a cop,” Thakur told police.
Scared by his aggressive stance, the kids began crying. This attracted the attention of passers-by who rushed to our rescue, she said. “When I clicked pictures of his car, he again threatened me with dire consequences,” said Thakur who then approached Satellite police and filed a complaint against unknown car driver for criminal intimidation and uttering abusive words.
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