A horrific incident of suspected road rage has come to light in Bengaluru, where a 26-year-old man was stabbed to death.
According to an officer at the Madanayakanahalli Police Station, Santosh, a resident of Vinayak Nagar, located near Chikkabidarakallu, was driving home in his car on Sunday night.
“So far it is known that 26-year-old Santosh was driving back home from a mall after watching a movie when his car touched a bike near a traffic signal. The men on the bike asked Santosh to pull over and an argument broke out between them,” the officer said.
After a heated argument, Santosh got into his car and began driving home. The two men allegedly followed him all the way till Chikkabidarakallu and again stopped his car.
“The second time, the two men stabbed Santosh multiple times and sped away. The injuries proved fatal for Santosh,” the officer added.
A passer-by, who saw Santosh lying in a pool of blood, rushed to help him but he was already dead.
The Madanayakanahalli police have registered a case of murder against two unidentified men. Santosh’s body has been sent for an autopsy.
Past Instances of Road Rage
On August 27, a minor road rage incident led to the murder of a 21-year-old youth and left his friend with critical stab injuries, when a group of suspected drug addicts attacked them with weapons at a bakery in Wilson Garden.
Karthik and his friend Avinash had seen two men on a bike, which was moving in the wrong direction on a one-way street. They reprimanded the biker for breaking the rules. A few hours later, a group of men came in an auto rickshaw and stabbed Karthik to death while Avinash sustained grievous injuries.
In August 2016, in another incident of road rage, a 33-year-old Major in the Indian Army was pulled out of his vehicle and brutally assaulted by an auto driver and four others near the SCT Institute of Technology on Kaggadasapura Main Road. A techie intervened and helped the major, who survived the brutal attack.