On camera: Doctor in Mercedes goes on rampage

Bengaluru: A doctor at the wheel of a brand new Merc mowed down a 52-year-old scooterist and injured four others, after ramming three cars and another two-wheeler in Jayanagar, south Bengaluru, on Sunday afternoon.The Mercedes C 200 (KA 01 MR 9186) came to a halt after ploughing into a tile-roofed house on Byrasandra Main Road. All residents of the house, luckily, were away at the time of the incident. The sedan is an auto gear vehicle, police said.The Sunday afternoon horror unravelled over a drive of around 2km, in a span of less around six minutes.Initial medical tests on whether orthopaedician NS Shankar, 55, was drunk, were inconclusive, and police have sent his blood samples to the Forensic Sciences Laboratory for further tests, sources said.Shankar's domestic help, Sarita, and her two-year-old child were with him in the car. The child suffered injuries.Shankar, who runs Siddhartha Clinic in Jayanagar IV Block and is a resident of Vidyapeetha, Girinagar, first rammed a Maruti Swift near Ashoka Pillar but did not stop the car. Moving towards Madhavan Park, Shankar turned left after the park and hit a two-wheeler and two cars, an Indica and a Zen.The doctor continued to drive and entered Byrasandra Main Road, where he rammed a scooter. With the scooterist clinging on to the bonnet, the Benz ploughed into a makeshift house on the left side of the road, where it ground to a halt.Scooterist Rizwan Ahmed, 52, a tailor and Byrasandra resident, was killed on the spot, while his wife riding pillion, Mohsina Begum, was rushed to a private hospital with a fractured leg, and is under treatment.Motorcyclist Majid Khan, 20, was treated as an outpatient at Nimhans, while Tanzeem Khanum, who was on the backseat of the Indica, was admitted to a private hospital nearby.Siddapura police rushed to the spot and took the orthopaedician into custody. Shankar claimed he lost consciousness after he hit the Swift near Ashoka Pillar."All I remember is I dashed some vehicle. After that, I lost consciousness. I woke up when people began banging my door and shouting," he said. However, police refused to believe the doctor's claims.