Patiala: Windshield of funeral van carrying body smashed in road rage

Tribune News Service

Patiala, December 19

A man driving a car has been booked for allegedly smashing the windshield of a funeral van carrying a body near the Lakkar Mandi road crossing in an incident of road rage.

The police said the driver of the car (PB 52 A 4455) exchanged heated arguments with Sukhwinder Singh, the driver of the funeral van, for not allowing his vehicle space to pass at the crossing on Saturday evening. In the meantime, the car driver took out a hockey stick and smashed the front windshield of the funeral van and fled the scene.

The police said they had booked the unidentified driver of the car under Sections 323, 341, 427 and 506 of the Indian Penal code on a complaint of the funeral van driver.

The incident

The police said the driver of a car (PB 52 A 4455) exchanged heated arguments with Sukhwinder Singh, the driver of a funeral van, for not allowing his vehicle space to pass at the crossing on Saturday evening. In the meantime, the car driver took out a hockey stick and smashed the front windshield of the funeral van and fled the scene.

In his statement to the police, Sukhwinder alleged, “The car driver came to me agitated and told me to reverse the van so as to make him drive his car out of the traffic jam. After some time, without any provocation, he brought a hockey stick from his car and smashed the front windshield of the van.”

Sukhwinder claimed that he had told the car driver that there was a body inside the van and he should let the van go for the sake of humanity.

The police said they would soon arrest the suspect. Meanwhile, a video of the entire incident has gone viral on the social media.