In yet another road rage incident, two engineering students were allegedly beaten up by two unidentified men after an altercation over honking on the road in South-East Delhi’s Govindpuri area, police said on Saturday.
The victims, identified as Mohammed Shakeer (22) and Muneeb Geelani (22) are natives of Srinagar. They are students at a prestigious institute in Delhi-NCR and reside at a rented accommodation in South Delhi’s Malviya Nagar area, said a police official.
According to police, the incident was reported around 8.45 pm on Thursday when the two were heading toward’s a friend’s residence in Tara Apartment in Govindpuri area in their Maruti Ritz car. They claimed that a Scorpio SUV was following them and kept honking continuously despite there being no space for overtaking a vehicle.
They told police that the occupants of the Scorpio SUV rolled down the window and verbally abused them. They stopped their car when Shakeer and Geelani retaliated, said a police official.
The two unidentified men, aged around 25 years, alighted the SUV with baseball bats and allegedly shattered the windshield of the Ritz car. When Shakeer and Geelanin tried to stop them, the unidentified duo allegedly thrashed them too and fled from the scene. Police was informed and the youths were taken to a hospital. Also, police registered a case under relevant sections of the law and efforts are being done to nab the accused, said a senior official.
