Ghaziabad road rage victim faces police apathy

GHAZIABAD: A road rage victim is suffering from the indifference of the Ghaziabad police as they have failed to take any action in his case. The victim, a marketing manager in a leading path lab in Delhi, was thrashed by a youth in Indirapuram on August 9 after his bike nudged against a car while he was on his way to pay his electricity bill. In the incident, the victim, Rajiv Lochan Sharma, got two fractured ribs and has been advised complete bed rest by doctors.
Sharma told TOI that he lives in flat 410 in Aravali apartments at Kaushambi and is the only breadwinner of his family. “I left my residence in the morning to go to work, but decided to pay my electricity bill first. As I was about to reach the billing office, a Fiat Linea car (DL3C BM 2047) overtook my bike at the turn and in the process both vehicles nudged each other.
“The occupant of the car, a youth of 20-25 years, got out fuming and pushed me down. He then started kicking me in my stomach and chest even as I was stuck underneath my bike. None of the passersby helped me. Later, a man stopped and called my brother. He even dialled the PCR but the cops came only after half an hour,” said Sharma.
The victim said that the cops did not do anything even after he provided them the car’s registration number. His family then decided to take out details on their own and came to know that the car was owned by a lawyer residing in the same colony. “My family approached the cops with this information but they have still not registered a case,” said Sharma.
“I took my brother to a private hospital. After an X-ray examination doctors said that he has fractured his sixth and seventh ribs on the left side,” said Surender Mohan Sharma, the victim’s brother.
Station officer of Indirapuram, Gorakhnath Yadav, said that he is not aware of the incident. “I will have to check status of the case,” Yadav said.