Auto driver held for stalking woman

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 10

A 22-year-old auto driver has been arrested for stalking and abusing a woman and thrashing her husband following a road rage incident. The incident took place on December 8. However, the victim approached the police today.

According to the police, the woman, a resident of Sector 30, reported that on December 8, she, along with her family, was going from Kisan Bhawan Chowk to Sector 38 around 9.30 pm in their Tata Indigo when an auto driver, while overtaking her car from the wrong side, started abusing the victim and her husband.

The victim and the auto driver stopped after which the auto driver, Pardeep Kumar, a resident of Sector 25, started misbehaving with her. In the meanwhile, he also slapped the victim’s husband.

Passersby gathered at the spot and pacified the auto driver and asked the victim and her husband to leave.

The victim alleged that after they left, the auto driver again started following them and kept hurling abuses at them and even threatened the victim and her family. The police said the victim chased the victim till the garbage processing plant in Sector 38.

The victim returned today and submitted a complaint.

The police said a case under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 336 (an act endangering the life or personal safety of others), 506 (criminal intimidation), 509 (word, gesture or an act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and 354-D (stalking) of the IPC had been registered against the auto driver. He was arrested.