MAN ASSAULTS MEA OFFICIAL’S DRIVER FOR NOT GIVING WAY

In yet another road rage incident in the capital, an MEA official’s driver was injured when another motorist allegedly smashed his car’s window for not giving him way near the Embassy of Italy in Chanakyapuri on Monday.

The victim, Manoj, works as a driver for a joint secretary with the ministry of external affairs. He was driving the official’s 14-year-old son for his coaching class in Green Park on Monday afternoon when the alleged assault happened.

The boy, who was seated on the back seat of the Toyota Etios car, escaped unhurt, said a senior police officer. Manoj, however, required hospitalisation after glass shards from car’s shattered window pierced his face and hands. He was later discharged after treatment.

Manoj had managed to note down the registration number of the Swift Dzire car of the alleged assaulter. The police tracked the accused, Ratheem Samby, who lives in West Delhi’s Janakpuri and works in a marketing firm.

Having picked his employer’s son from his home in MEA flats in Chanakyapuri, Manoj was passing by the embassy on Satya Marg around 3.30pm when the other car began honking. “Since it was a curve, it was not possible for me to give way. That angered him and he intercepted my car, forcing me to stop. He then entered into a verbal confrontation with me,” alleged Manoj.

Manoj claimed that he tried to ignore Samby and drive away, but the accused again stopped him. “The accused brought out a wooden stick from his car and smashed the side window of Manoj’s car,” said a police officer. To save the boy and himself from any further assault, Manoj ensured that the car remained locked from inside the entire while. Once the accused was gone, Manoj called the police who arrived at the crime scene and took him to RML Hospital for treatment.