7 booked for beating up pregnant woman
GREATER NOIDA: Seven persons, including three women, were booked for allegedly kicking and beating up a pregnant woman and two members of her family in an incident of road rage near Omaxe Connaught Place Mall in Greater Noida on Sunday. The woman, Renu Agarwal, 28, was going for a movie with her husband Jitendra Aggarwal and brother-in-law Ravi when the incident took place, just a few metres from the mall.
Renu, a resident of Sector Beta 2 in Greater Noida, said Jitendra was driving the car when a car came from the same direction.
“There were seven youngsters in the car and they were driving rashly. I advised them to drive slow. They stopped the car and picked a fight with us,” Jitendra said.
“But there was no collision of the vehicles. There was traffic ahead and hence both the cars stopped. The seven youngsters got down from their car and started beating up Jitendra and Ravi. They also dragged me out of the car and one of them, a girl, kicked in my abdomen,” Renu said in the complaint.
Jitendra said that he dialled UP 112 and informed police but the suspects fled the spot. “The police took us to a government hospital in Greater Noida for medical examination. The medical reports shows Renu is fine. We will get the medical reports of the foetus on March 20,” he said.
Jitendra said that the suspects got his number from police station and apologised on Monday. “They apologised and requested us to withdraw the complaint. We have said that we will withdraw the complaint, if the medical report shows the baby is fine. If the report shows any abnormality due to injury, we will pursue the case,” he said.
Rajesh Kumar Singh, deputy commissioner of police, Greater Noida, said police personnel reached the spot and they rushed Renu to the hospital. “The victim said she was in the early stages of pregnancy. The incident caused no serious injuries to the woman. We have registered a case against the suspects under Sections 147 (rioting) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the IPC,” he said.