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 Pune's Keshavnagar area on Monday.
The chartered accountant, Yash Manwani (29) suffered injuries on his back, waist, left leg and right hand. He lodged a complaint with police station after getting treated at a private hospital on Tuesday. "Based on some witnesses' accounts, we identified three of the four attackers. One of them, a casual worker from Mundhwa, has been detained," an officer said on Wednesday.
Manwani told TOI, "I was going to Keshavnagar... Approaching the Janaseva Bank, my car landed in a deep pothole filled with water and the resultant splash drenched the duo on their bike and the two pedestrians passing by my vehicle."
"The biker chased my car and kicked the driver's side of the 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 riderforced me to step out of my car. I advised them to visit the nearby police chowki, but they refused. By this time, the two pedestrians also reached there and together, the four men abused and thrashed me,"he added.
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Read MoreAsseem Shaikh is a special correspondent at The Times of India, Pune. He holds a PG degree in Journalism and Communication and Human Rights, and has been a journalist for about 20 years now. He covers the crime and legal beats with special focus on ‘syndicated’ crime, cyber crime, terrorism, custodial deaths, fake encounters and human rights violations. Has made good use of the Right to Information Act for journalistic purposes. He loves to travel.
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