BHOPAL: A 25-year-old German language tutor was threatened with

and her student stabbed in the neck by a group of men who kept mocking her: “MeToo complain karegi?

rape kar denge." This horror unfolded in the middle of a traffic jam in the heart of

on Sunday night, but no one among the 100-odd bystanders bothered to help the duo.

The accused, who claimed to be journalists, escaped unhindered, still mocking the woman who was trying frantically to stop the bleeding from her student’s neck injury. Over 24 hour later, police are yet to arrest the suspects though she has given the registration number of the car they were in.

The tutor told TOI that she was driving back with one her students, a 23-year-old, when they got stuck in a jam in front of a well known restaurant in MP Nagar around 8pm. The three men were coming from the opposite way on a road that has been cut by half due to an ongoing multi-level parking project. They blocked her SUV with their car and refused to reverse although there was enough room for them, she says. With a long line of cars honking behind her, she asked them to back off a bit and give her room, but they began taunting her, she says.

When she protested, they allegedly started attacking her. “One of them pulled my student out of the SUV through the window and started assaulting him. They tore his clothes and stabbed him in the neck. When I protested, his accomplices also got out and started taking a video, mocking: ‘MeToo mein complain karegi toh tera rape kar denge’,” they said. As the duo reeled in horror, the accused got in their car and drove away. “There were more than 50 vehicles stuck in the jam and a large number of people stood and watched but no one came to help us. I was shocked,” she said, alleging that the trio also tried to strangle the youth.

A Dial-100 vehicle responded to her call and escorted her to MP Nagar police station where she filed a complaint. MP Nagar SHO Upendra Bhati said they have registered a case and will nab the suspects soon.