It was Sunday night and 51-year-old Ram Bharose was bleeding profusely.

At Shankar Road roundabout, Bharose, who was returning from Gurgaon, didn’t know how to react. It was a deadly situation: a group of women were thrashing him mercilessly over a minor allegation.

Bharose’s Honda Civic sedan had allegedly brushed the scooty of a woman, Sonia. The scrape enraged Sonia and her aunt Aarti, who was riding pillion. Soon, Sonia’s mother reached the spot in an auto rickshaw and joined in the attack.

It was ugly and brutal, and the assault continued for at least 30 minutes. Two passers-by tried to intervene, but they failed to stop the trouble and decided to alert the police.

The police booked Bharose for rash driving even as cross FIRs were filed at the Mandir Marg police station.

Recounting his trauma, Bharose told Mail Today: “I was returning from Gurgaon after dropping off the daughter of my boss. As I reached Shankar Road roundabout around 12.05am on Sunday, two women riding on a Scooty suddenly took a turn, touching my car and then they fell down. Before I could react, one woman started hitting the window of my car and another woman started to look for something on the road.

"As I opened the door of my sedan, another woman reached the spot in an auto rickshaw, who claimed to be the Scooty owner’s mother. All of them started thrashing me very badly. It went on for about 30 minutes. They slapped me and punched me at least a dozen times.”

According to Bharose, two men riding on a bike stopped and tried to help him, but the women furiously pushed them back.

“When those two men saw that three women were beating me mercilessly, they tried to rescue me. But the Scooty owner (Sonia) misbehaved with them. Later, the two men decided to call the police for help. Those women didn’t even allow me to park my vehicle on the roadside,” Bharose said.

“When the police arrived, one of the women slapped me again and said ‘I will kill you’,” Bharose added.

He further alleged that the Scooty riders were not wearing helmets, and they didn’t have proper papers with them. Curiously, the police had initially thought that it was Bharose who had beaten up the three women. But when they reached the spot, they found it was Bharose instead who was badly injured and bleeding.

According to the police, two cases have been registered in Mandir Marg police station and investigations are on.

The police arrested Bharose for driving rashly immediately after the incident. But the women, who allegedly thrashed Bharose, have not faced any action so far.

Delhi Police have registered a case against Bharose under Sections 279 and 337 of the Indian Penal Code, and a case has been registered against the women under IPC sections 323, 341 and 34.

According to DCP of New Delhi District Vijay Singh, investigations in both the cases are on and two separate cases have been registered.

“After the incident, we have registered a case against the women under three IPC sections. Also, for hitting the women and driving rashly a case has been registered against the driver and he has been arrested,” Singh told Mail Today.

According to a police official investigating the case, when the women reached Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, they were very aggressive.

When their other family members reached the hospital, they threatened Bharose in front of the doctors and the police.