BENGALURU: A 38-year-old man and his homemaker wife were brutally attacked by seven miscreants for raising objections to the gang partying on the roadside in west Benglauru Sunday.
Shivagange Gowda, 38, who owns a curtain and furnishing store, and his wife Jayalakshmi, 35, a homemaker, at 4th Main, Tunganagara, Herohalli, off Magadi Road, were attacked by the miscreants with daggers, a cricket bat, and hollow brick. They also vandalised their SUV.
Gowda had parked his Toyota Innova near his house. A few youths were partying adjacent to his car from 7pm. He heard the boisterous youths hurling invectives at each other.
He peeped through his window and found three men consuming liquor near his SUV. Gowda told the youths that it was a public place and families reside in the area, advising them it was not right to create a nuisance.
“We will leave, uncle,” they replied. But they continued partying. He then tried calling 112 to complain, but got no response.
After some time, Gowda took his pet dog out for a walk and returned at 9.30pm. He again went to the three youths and asked them, “Don’t you have dignity? Leave this place now.” When the trio tried to attack, he ran back into house.
Jayalakshmi came out and asked the youths to leave. A couple of them pulled out daggers and tried to enter the house through the gate. One of them chopped a small tree in front of the gate with the dagger and threatened her. When she slapped him, he assaulted her.
The youths called their friends, and four men came in an autorickshaw. Some of them started vandalising the SUV with hollow bricks.
“I took my son’s cricket bat and stepped out to shoo away the men. Four of them started stabbing me with daggers. I caught a dagger with my hand and got a deep cut.
They continued to hit me on my head, face, and left shoulder. I collapsed,” Gowda told TOI.
Jayalakshmi sustained minor injuries on her back and leg. When neighbours stepped out, the miscreants escaped. Gowda was discharged Wednesday.
Byadarahalli police took a complaint from him Monday.
It’s a failure of police, says victim
“If youths are roaming with daggers and partying on the roadside, it’s a failure of our jurisdiction police. They were partying from 7pm till 9.30pm. Where were the police? Why don’t they keep a watch of such anti-social elements?” Gowda said.
The entire drama was caught on CCTV cameras of neighbouring houses. A police officer said they have detained three of the attackers and efforts are on to nab the others.
A case has been registered under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Sections 109 (attempt to murder), 118 (voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 189(2) – (unlawful assembly), 191 (2, 3) – (rioting), 324 (mischief), and 74 (assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), among others.