In a shocking incident, an employee of a Maruti Nexa showroom in Hadapsar (Mahalaxmi Automotives) was brutally thrashed by five people over an alleged parking row. The incident took place on January 12 in Kharadi when Aarpit Ramesh Raut, a relationship manager of the automobile store in Magarpatta Road, had a minor scuffle with three other men who were parking their two-wheeler and allegedly brushed against Raut while the latter was taking his bike out of a parking lot.Raut apparently told the trio to watch out and not drive rashly. However, heated argument broke out among them, and Raut thought it best to leave it at that, he later said. But, the three men followed him inside an eating joint where Raut had gone to have a cup of tea. They supposedly summoned two other men and the five of them and beat up Raut, the complainant said. A case has been registered in Chandan Nagar police station in this matter. Four of the accused have been arrested, while the fifth one is absconding. Police identified the miscreants with the help of the closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera footage, officials said. Cops traced the accused’s bike number and located his address.According to police, 31-year-old Raut, a resident of Kharadi, has lodged the complaint against Pratik Gajanan Chavan (23), Akshay Eknath Kavare (21), Rohit Milind Khaire (20) and Manoj Abhimaan Kanade (20).The FIR registered says the three men misbehaved with the complainant in the parking lot and later followed him into the eatery and started beating him up. Other customers present there apparently tried to intervene, but the accused roughed them up as well and created a ruckus inside the restaurant, states the FIR.Shankar Khatke, senior police inspector of Chandan Nagar police station told Mirror, “A case has been registered against the accused under sections 307 (attempt to murder), 323, 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of Rs 50), 143 (unlawful assembly) and 147 and 148 (rioting) of the Indian Penal Code and sections 3 and 7 of the Criminal Amendment Act. Four of the accused have been arrested. Further investigation is on.”