Social media these days helps us be aware of the happenings across the globe. People post about their experiences on the platforms, and that is how people get to know about them. In a similar way, a techie from Bengaluru shared a thread on a very terrifying incident that he experienced with his family in a car on Suranjan Das Road. He claimed that he was attacked by two bikers in broad daylight.
Bengaluru Family Attacked In Broad Daylight
A Bengaluru-based senior software engineer, Neelesh Salgaonkar, shared a thread on his Twitter account. In this thread, he narrates an incident that he experienced with his teen daughter and wife as they were on Suranjan Das Road in their car.
The thread explained that the family was travelling from HSR Layout to Old Madras Road when they were attacked by bikers. Two bikers tried to intercept their car after Salgaonkar did not stop when they asked him to. The road was deserted, and sensing the danger, Salgaonkar took a reverse while his wife tried calling 100 but failed to reach the police.
The petrified family narrated the incident to traffic policemen at BEML Circle and were only directed from one police station to another. Read the thread below:
ALARMING INCIDENT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT IN BENGALURU!
Met with a terrifying incident on Saturday 29-Apr-2023. We were travelling on the Suranjan Das Road in our car, on the way to BEML circle.— Neelesh Salgaonkar (@neelsalgaonkar) May 1, 2023
This incident occurred between 1:20pm and 1:35pm. We noticed there was considerably less traffic on that particular stretch.
All of a sudden, we noticed a man on a bike driving next to our car on the left side who started waving at us to stop.— Neelesh Salgaonkar (@neelsalgaonkar) May 1, 2023
Then exactly opposite the Aeronautical Development Agency (Raman Gate), they accelerated and abruptly parked their bikes in front of our car, forcing us to stop. Both of them got off their bikes and started coming towards our car in a hostile manner.
— Neelesh Salgaonkar (@neelsalgaonkar) May 1, 2023
Meanwhile, my wife frantically dialed 100, but there was no response. During this moment, both of them hit our car windows with their helmets. We sped away from the spot and reached the BEML signal, where there was traffic on the road and about 4 traffic policemen present.
— Neelesh Salgaonkar (@neelsalgaonkar) May 1, 2023
This was the first time such an incident had happened to us in 15 years of staying in Bangalore city and that too in broad daylight. My daughter and wife were extremely petrified.
— Neelesh Salgaonkar (@neelsalgaonkar) May 1, 2023
After that to ascertain whether that spot falls under their jurisdiction or not, they sent one policeman with us to show them the spot. On reaching there he told us that the place comes under another police station jurisdiction and asked us to go to that police station.
— Neelesh Salgaonkar (@neelsalgaonkar) May 1, 2023
It is really painful to see our very own “Namma Bengaluru” city getting famous for all the wrong reasons. #CareForBengaluru@BlrCityPolice, @CPBlr, @Tejasvi_Surya, @msrbommanahalli pic.twitter.com/JZYlB7hgxD
— Neelesh Salgaonkar (@neelsalgaonkar) May 1, 2023
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Netizens Offered Advice And Expressed Disappointment Too
The thread posted by a Bengaluru techie has by far garnered over 762.3K views and over 3,700 likes on Twitter.
Many Netizens expressed their anger and disappointment as the affected family had to run from one police station to another to lodge a complaint. They wished for a jurisdiction that offered initial support at such a time of crisis.
This technical issue of jurisdiction is most exasperating when one is in major trouble. Can we not have a system where whoever is the police do the initial support & then transfer to the relevant police station( like a first aid) This will go a long way in bein people friendly 🙏
— Ratna Prabha (@Ratnaprabha_IAS) May 1, 2023
I thought this was the rule in case of crimes. I am sure discretion could have been applied to nab miscreants even if the rule did not exist
— RVS Sridhar alias Sridhar Rallabandi (@SridharRVS) May 2, 2023
Some users advised the techie and others to install a dash cam that can help one gather evidence to catch the culprits. Another user asked people to try and record such incidents on their phones’ cameras. He also mentioned that 112 is the new emergency number across the country.
Please install dash cam, very much needed!
— Shirshandu 😇 (@shirshandu) May 1, 2023
I my personal option is to record
Would be dash camera to simple phone video this would be evidence, coz they too can file case against u, but proof will give u a hand,
112 is new emergency no in Bengaluru City or all over India.
These events r popping more often then we think— Trishan Gangaraju (@trishan_harsha) May 1, 2023
One user spoke about how he too faced something similar and then left the city.
Not surprised as I have faced similar hostility twice from auto and cab drivers. I had moved out of Bangalore 10 years ago as at times it didn’t feel safe.
— GG (@guptag_dev) May 1, 2023
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