IAF officer booked for assault in B’luru road rage

An FIR has been registered against a 40-year-old IAF officer on charges of attempt to murder, criminal intimidation and voluntarily causing hurt based on a counter-complaint by a call centre employee, who was previously arrested on the officer’s complaint in a road rage incident, the police said on Tuesday.

Indian Air Force Wing Commander Shiladitya Bose made an allegation in a video he shared that he was attacked and verbally abused by a group of Kannada-speaking individuals who chased him on a bike in Bengaluru early Monday morning. Terming it a case of road rage, the police arrested Vikas Kumar, who works as a team head at a software company’s call centre.

Both parties have attacked each other, and some purported videos showed the IAF officer roughing up Vikas Kumar, creating a scene for the onlookers.

The officer was captured engaging in an argument with Kumar and beating him up in full public view, even as his wife tried to stop him.

Home Minister G Parameshwara said an FIR has been registered against the IAF officer based on the complaint by a call centre employee, but he has gone to West Bengal.

“A case has been taken. Investigation will be done, and he will be secured,” he told mediapersons here.

Bengaluru City Police Commissioner B Dayanand said, “The police are investigating both cases. We will come to a conclusion based on the eyewitness accounts, CCTV footage, and other materials. The initial information shows that it was an altercation between a bike rider and the officer.”