Pink Taxi

Byatarayanapura

auto driver

The girl's mother drives a Pink Taxi to and from the airport

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By Amit KumarThe girl, whose mom and aunt are taxi drivers, only asked the man not to trouble her cousins who were playing with his pet dogSujatha, a 38-year-old woman working as a cab driver for, an airport taxi service for women, and Yeshaswini, her 16-year-old daughter, a college student, were injured after their neighbhour and his family attacked them with wooden planks over a minor argument atThe victim’s sister Prameela, also a cab driver with the same taxi service and a former stunt double in Sandalwood movies, was also injured. Prameela tried to intervene when her sister and her niece were attacked on the night of April 12. The accused have been identified as Amul Raj (45), an, and his family members who attacked the mother and daughter. While Sujatha has deep wounds in her head, Yeshaswini has sustained serious injuries to her face and nose.“Amulraj and his family used to constantly pick fights with us. We are four women staying together and he would threaten and harrass us,” said Sujatha in her statement.According to Sujatha’s complaint, her cousins and their children had come to visit them on April 12 and some of the children were trying to play with Amul Raj’s dog in the common entrance leading to both Sujatha’s and Amul Raj’s house. Amul Raj took objection to this and started shouting at the children.“Yeshaswini intervened and told Amul Raj not to shout at the children. He got enraged and started hitting my daughter. Both my sister and I tried to intervene and stop him but he assaulted us too,” said Sujatha.Amul Raj reportedly took a wooden plank and hit both Sujatha and Yeshaswini inflicting serious injuries. Yeshaswini’s nose was fractured while Sujatha has a deep wound on her head which required five stitches. Amul Raj is also said to have caught Sujatha by her hair and slapped her.“His wife and family members also came and joined him while he was attacking us. He also threatened that he would kill us. Amul Raj constantly harrasses and threatens us.”Sujatha had joined the cab service as a driver last month to support her family.After receiving medical attention, Byatarayanapura police were notified about the incident and an FIR was registered against Amul Raj and his family members under sections 341 (Punishment for wrongful restraint), 323 (Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 354 (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 504 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (Punishment for criminalintimidation).Amul Raj was arrested and sent to Parappana Agrahara prison.