Man assaulted in Mumbai for refusing to let car jump a signal, gets written apology later

After a media person was assaulted for refusing to let a car jump a red signal in Mumbai, Sahara company Aamby Valley, in whose name the car was registered, wrote a written apology to the victim. [caption id=“attachment_1791259” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Image of the car which had allegedly jumped the signal taken by Ravi Shankar. Courtesy: Facebook[/caption] 25-year-old Ravi Shankar described the entire incident of assault on Monday on a Facebook post . Shankar wrote that while he was waiting at the Citiwalk traffic signal on the Linking road in Bandra at around 7.30 pm on Monday, an Innova car came behind him and started honking. When Shankar refused to let the car go by because the signal was red, a security guard came out of the car and hit him hard with a lathi. Shankar then followed the car and forced it to pull over. “The guard who hit me put his head out throughout, abusing me and asking me to come to his side. They eventually pulled over and I got off my bike as I continued to abuse them verbally. The guard who hit me came to me. He was followed by another guy who was holding a gun. They both came to me and tried to intimidate me with their size,” Shankar wrote in his post. He also pointed out that nobody from the crowd, which had gathered by then, bothered to intervene. “The guy with the gun walked up to me and said that I should be glad it was a lathi (with which he had been attacked earlier) because if it were him, he’d have put a bullet into me,” Shankar added. Two days after the incident occurred, Abhijit Sarkar,a spokesperson from the Aamby Valley Lucknow office sent an ‘unconditional apology’ to Shankar and said that the person involved in the incident had been suspended and an inquiry was being conducted into the matter, according to a Mumbai Mirror report . “If the personnel are found guilty, a very strict action will be taken up against him,” Sarkar said. Shankar had also filed a case with the Khar police. “We have registered a non-cognizable complaint on the basis of the information given by the complainant. We will be calling upon the accused after we ascertain his identity,” said Khar police senior inspector Dattatray Bhargude in another Mumbai Mirror report . This report also clarified that the person suspended for the incident was one Ravi, who had been a part of the security department of the Aamby Valley for many years.