Truck driver assaulted in road rage incident in Gurgaon, cops on the lookout for 3 accused | Delhi News
2 min readA truck driver was beaten up by three men in a road rage case in Gurgaon’s Bilaspur on Wednesday night, the police said, adding that they are in the process of identifying the accused.
According to police, the group attacked truck driver Hansraj, who was heading to an Amazon facility in Jamalpur at around 10.15 pm. “They overtook his truck and beat him up, claiming that he did not give them space to drive away,” a police officer said. Hansraj has sustained injuries and is undergoing treatment at a Rewari hospital, she added.
Hansraj, a Patiala resident, said that he was beaten up twice by the accused. “I was driving away when they started speeding and hurling abuses. Then they made me stop the vehicle and get me down. Then they started beating me up, so I ran away and tried to flee with the truck to the office, thinking I would be safe there, but these men followed me and stopped my truck again, at the company gate. Even though there were a lot of people watching, no one interfered,” he said.
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In the complaint, he stated that at around 10.15 pm, he was driving from Bilaspur to the Amazon facility in Jamalpur. He stated that when he reached the facility at 11 pm, he stopped his vehicle at the gate. At that time, a white vehicle pulled up beside his vehicle, and three individuals got out of it. When he refused to get out, they took out sticks and threatened him. They then proceeded to break the windows of his vehicle.
“As I tried to get out and escape, they grabbed me, and I was physically assaulted with sticks and rods. I fell to the ground. When others arrived at the scene, they accused me of damaging their vehicle. They threatened to harm me further, and I eventually left the scene. I could not note down the registration number of the vehicle that the assailants came in,” he stated.
The police received information about Hansraj being injured and admitted to a hospital. An FIR was lodged under several charges, including voluntarily causing hurt and criminal intimidation, at Bilaspur police station. The medical report indicates that he has sustained three minor injuries, the FIR stated.