Raman Research Institute

Sanjaynagar

Shivam

Bihar

Sadashivanagar

RMV

BMW

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A 28-year-old senior research fellow atwas assaulted by a group of seven men neararea on Friday. Kumaris undergoing treatment for a broken nose after a man in a car and three others on bikes beat him up for objecting to the man having taken an abrupt turn on the road.Shivam, who is originally from, told BM, the incident happened around 4 pm when he was going from his institute atto his hostel inIInd Stage. “I was riding a scooter and had reached the 80 feet road in front of MS Ramaiah Hospital. Just then, the driver of a whitecar right ahead of me, who had put on the indicator to the right, suddenly took a left turn. Another scooterist and I had to apply brakes all of a sudden to avoid hitting the car. I pointed at the driver and objected to this. The driver was talking to someone while taking the turn, so I told him he must not talk and drive,” Shivam said.Shivam said he had then gone on for about 500 metres, when he heard somebody shouting at him. He slowed down and turned back to see the white car and three bikes chasing him. “The seven youths stopped me near the Shopping Day supermarket. They beat me and punched me on my nose. After my nose started bleeding, the accused fled. I was unable to note down the vehicles’ registration numbers,” Shivam added.The accused stopped Shivam in the middle of the traffic and beat him. They are said to have abused him and threatened to kill him. Bystanders helped Shivam gather himself and called the police for help. The police are going through thefootage from commercial establishments nearby. Police have registered a case of causing hurt (IPC 323), wrongful restraint (IPC 341), intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace (IPC 504) and criminal intimidation (IPC 506).