Woman confronts driver; gets dragged

For this 24-year-old IT professional a ride back home from office on a two-wheeler on Tuesday evening turned into a nightmare. The trouble started when Ranjitha, a native of Tamil Nadu, along with her colleague reached Kormanagala 3rd block near water tank.

While waiting at the signal, she noticed that a rouge auto-rickshaw driver was leering at her. When Ranjitha confronted him, he allegedly hurled abuses at her. The situation turned ugly when Ranjitha tried to stop the autodriver, by holding on to his vehicle. He sped away, dragging her for about 100 metres.

The alleged assault took place around 8.40 pm when Ranjitha, a resident of Kormangala I Block, was returning home along with her colleague Ashish from her office in Electronics City. When they reached a traffic junction, the auto driver, Madhusudan, began leering at the victim.

Narrating her ordeal, Ranjitha told this newspaper, “I was on my two-wheeler waiting at traffic junction along with my colleague, when I noticed the autorickshaw driver continuously staring at me. He was also murmuring something to himself. I felt uncomfortable and confronted him. To my shock, the auto-driver hurled abuses at me in Kannada and Hindi. I got down from my twowheeler and went near his auto. The driver continued hurling abuses at me. While he was leaving the spot as the signal cleared, I held on to his auto and asked him to come out so that we can sort it out at a police station. But he drove the auto-rickshaw and I held on to it tightly. He dragged me for nearly 100 metres. I had abrasions on my knee,” she added.

The accused driver stopped the auto-rickshaw only after a couple of passersby flagged him down at the next traffic junction and informed the traffic policeman standing nearby.