NEW DELHI: A senior manager with Mercedes Benz has been lying comatose for the past eight days after being allegedly hit on the head with an iron rod by a youth whose car he brushed against in south Delhi’s Neb Sarai area.

The victim, Stanley Stephen , 45, was going out to drop his 10-year-old daughter to school. According to the version of the victim’s friend, Binu Thomas, he was reversing his car when it hit a Maruti Esteem . An argument ensued, after which the other driver allegedly pulled out an iron rod from the boot of his car and hit Stephen, leaving him unconscious on the road.

Thomas said there were two witnesses to the incident who related to him the sequence of events, although the FIR says no one saw the attack.

Stanley underwent surgery the same day to remove a blood clot on the left side of his brain. The incident took place on December 2. “It’s been more than a week now and he is still in coma. Doctors have said he will take time to recover. He is still on ventilator support as a back up,” his wife Leena said.

Police said a case of attempt to commit culpable homicide under section 308 of IPC has been registered and efforts are on to nab the accused.

Stephen's wife Leena Stanley, a teacher in a convent school, said her husband had gone to drop their daughter to the school bus stop near IGNOU road. When the bus didn't arrive, Stephen decided to drop her to school. He asked the girl to wait at the bus stop while he went to fetch his Swift from their home at An8u8p8am Ap8artm8e8nt. "He mu8st ha8ve be8en in a hu8rry as he had never as8k8ed her to wa8it alone on the road," said Leena.

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Leena learnt from the two eyewitnesses that Stephen apologized for hitting the Maruti Esteem but the youth in the car didn't listen. After being hit on the head, he was lying unconscious on road wh8en a passerby made a PCR call at 8am. Cops took him to hospital. When Leena reached the hospital, doctors told her that Stephen had been put on life support and a CT Scan had revealed that there was a blood clot in his brain which had led to a hemorrhage.

Police told Leena that as there were no witnesses, no action had been taken in the case.