Youth beats up couple in road violence incident in Chandigarh

A 25-year-old youth brutally attacked a couple with a stick in a road accident near the electricity substation in Sector 32-A, police said on Saturday.

The accused has been identified as Mohit Garg, a resident of Sector 32-A.

The victims, Meenakshi Sood, 48, and her husband Ashok Sood, were his neighbors, police said.

The couple told police that they were returning home from the vegetable market in Sector 26 in their Maruti Suzuki Alto K-10 around 7.40 pm on Friday.

When they reached the substation in Sector 32-A, a bike blocked their way. As they maneuvered their car to avoid the bike, a car came towards them at high speed, forcing Meenakshi to hit the brakes.

She alleged that the driver of the speeding car then reversed at high speed and parked it in front of her car, blocking her path.

The driver then got out of his vehicle and began hurling insults at her. When Ashok tried to reason with the driver, he took out a stick from his vehicle and attacked him.

When she intervened, Meenakshi said, the driver drove at her and hit her on the head several times with the stick.

As the altercation escalated, passersby gathered around, prompting a girl sitting in the attacker’s car to go outside and call her family members. Shortly afterwards, the defendant’s parents arrived at the scene.

The couple was then taken to Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, for treatment of minor injuries.

Following Meenakshi’s complaint, police lodged an FIR under Sections 341 (wrongful restraint) and 323 (intentional hurt) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Sector 34 police station.