Couple attacked by bike-borne miscreants over parking dispute

A case of assault on a couple has come to light from the Bhattian area on the Jalandhar Bypass here. Bike-borne youths beat up a person standing outside a house with his wife and son. The incident was captured on a CCTV camera installed outside the house. The man and his wife were injured in the scuffle and have been admitted to a private hospital.

The fight occurred over parking a tractor-trailer in the street. As per information, a person used to park sand-laden tractor-trailers in the area. Many times, area residents opposed the same as parking of the vehicle led to traffic jams. Even before the incident, the suspect was stopped from parking the vehicle in the street.

The injured man, Ronit Mishra, said some people in the area indulge in illegal sand mining, due to the same, tractor-trailers were often parked in the street, which leads to traffic jams. Sand is brought into the area after illegal mining.

“If somebody tries to stop tractor-trailer owners from parking the vehicles, he or she will get a similar treatment,” he said.

On Wednesday night also, he tried to stop the person from parking a tractor-trailer in the street. He did not say anything at that time but after some time, a biker came to the area with his companions and started creating a ruckus. According to Ronit, he was standing in the street with his wife and son when they attacked him with a rod. He got six stitches on his head.

It is not an isolated incident of violence. Every day similar cases are being reported from the city, which has created a sense of fear among residents.

In the past few days, many cases of crime reported from the city. A factory owner was attacked by miscreants in Sunder Nagar. Two security guards of a factory were badly injured as they tried to stop two persons from looting a pedestrian. In another incident, a video surfaced in social media in which a woman was showing robbing people with the help of her accomplice. A gym supplement seller received injuries on his head after two suspects assaulted him in a city area.