Two held in 14 August road rage incident near Rohini

The occupants of the SUV, who had allegedly thrashed the driver of a school bus near Rohini on 14 August have been arrested in Bahadugarh on Sunday.

The incident took place on 14 August when they beat up the driver of the school bus for not letting their car overtake. 

According to a senior police official, the two accused, identified as Manjit (25) and Harminder (26), are property dealers from Bahadurgarh in Haryana. 

On the morning of 14 August, they were on their way to the office. They were driving at a high speed on the busy road near the Japanese Park in the outer fringes of Delhi.

When they failed to overtake a school bus, they got irritated and intercepted it and forced the driver to come out.

Then they started beating him with an iron rod. When the students and a teacher sitting in the bus tried to stop them, the accused asked them to stay aside.

‘They had misbehaved with the teacher but did not assault her physically, as claimed by some eye-witnesses. This fact was later confirmed by the teacher herself,’ said Vikramjit Singh, deputy commissioner of police (Outer).

He further said, one of the students in the school bus had noted the number of the Scorpio which the accused were driving.  

In a separate incident on the same day, another school bus driver was beaten up by the occupants of a car, for similar reasons.