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Last Updated:April 22, 2025, 10:49 IST
In the Bengaluru road rage case, biker Vikas alleged that IAF officer Shiladitya Bose assaulted him by choking, biting, and hitting him. He also claimed Bose snatched his phone.
A screengrab of the Bengaluru road rage (Social Media)/IAF officer Shiladitya Bose (PTI)
Vikas Kumar, the two-wheeler rider who was arrested in connection with the Bengaluru road rage case, has alleged that the Indian Air Force officer he was involved in a scuffle with attempted to choke and kill him.
He also said IAF officer Shiladitya Bose tried to bite his hand, snatched his mobile and flung it in the air.
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In the First Information Report (FIR) he submitted against Bose, Vikas Kumar alleged, “The car brushed against my bike. When I confronted him, the man got down from the car and pushed me and the bike to the ground.”
“The man told me ‘I am in the Air Force, don’t play with me’,” Vikas alleged.
“When I tried to call my friend, he tried to bite my hand and snatched my mobile and threw it away. He flung my bike key,” he said.
“He tried to choke my neck and kill me,” Vikas alleged in the FIR.
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Meanwhile, eyewitnesses said Bose had completely lost control and started badly assaulting the biker.
“He was hitting him like mad, had lost control completely,” said one of the eyewitnesses.
“We tried to stop the fight, but the officer was out of control,” another one said.
“We are not taking sides, but the IAF officer too should follow the law. He landed 15-20 blows, flung Vikas’s phone with full force as he attempted to record the incident,” they said.
Vikas, who works at a software company’s call centre, was arrested in connection with the incident after the Air Force officer, in a self-recorded video on social media, alleged he was assaulted and verbally abused by a group of Kannada-speaking individuals who chased him on a bike in Bengaluru early Monday.
The police later termed it a case of road rage and said both parties attacked each other.
Videos widely being shared on social media showed the IAF officer roughing up Vikas and hitting him, even as his wife tried to stop him.
The incident occurred while the officer was on his way to the airport with his wife, who is also an IAF officer.
