Bengaluru Road Rage: 'How My Dash Cam Helped Police Catch Two Men on Bike Harassing Us in Our Car'

On 5 August, another road rage incident was caught on camera in Bengaluru. Priyam Dutta was travelling with his family when two men on a bike allegedly attacked them in Bengaluru's Whitefield area. The incident was recorded on the dash cam of his car. A case has been registered and the two men have been arrested and sent to judicial custody.
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[prashdhote]

The worst part - he was not even able to call the emergency numbers. How frightening this situation is!😢

[billmitsy]

I am a kannadiga and I completely agree on what’s happening in Bangalore nowadays. Everyone with chappri attire on activa or ktm thinks they’re rowdies. They don’t really care about repercussions. They just assault and rob people. My sincere advice is for all to keep ur dashcam ON and keep a pepper spray or baseball bat for your own protection. And do not open your car door when threatened.

Naam jana serigila, Bengaluru halag hogide

[sushant]

I'm from north karnataka and recently a traffic policeman verbally abused me for asking if I could take a right turn near dalmiya circle, coffee day. He was so loud and yelled at me using abusive words and shockingly people around were giggling!!! A rickshaw driver even jumped and started asking rhetorical questions! This made me very angry because they knew I'm from north karnataka as it's evident from registration number and I look a little bit like North Indian as I stayed in north and west India for a long time.

Honestly speaking, this never happened to me in maharashtra state when I stayed there for 5 years!

These incidents don't just happen randomly, they're preplanned after doing racial profiling. Pathetic state of affairs in bangalore, considering to leave after much abuse for 5 years almost now.

[achiver]

I worked extremely hard and saved money for 6 years to get one decent car. Out of nowhere, these bastards came bad, created a mark on my car, claimed that I hit them, and abused me with all the slang, from mother to father, and finally demanded compensation.I'm so depressed that I'm considering quitting my job in Bangalore in a few months...This occurs more frequently when you have an vehicle number from another state...now I am traveling in public bus even after I have a car...I park my vehicle in office itself...The majority of the incidents occurred on Bennerghatta Road...They are not scratching automobiles, but they are scratching my body.

[ritik]

Similar thing happened with my parents who are senior citizens. Out of nowhere four guys blocked my father's car near Electronic City and accused him of hitting their tempo. They tried to intimidate my parents and forcefully enter the car. Luckily the doors were locked and windows completely up. My dad was aware of this scam and asked them to come to the police station for mediation. As my parents drove they followed and kept trying to block. Finally my parents found a policeman but the policeman refused to help saying that he was busy. Since my parents could not free themselves from these goons they finally had to pay the goons Rs2000 to get back home safely.
Prior to this incident a few years ago a similar incident happened where an auto guy intentionally rammed into my father's car near Indiranagar. When we went to the police station the cops sided with the auto guy. The cops told my father that the auto guy is poor and therefore he should pay the auto guy. The passion with which the cop was sympathizing with the auto guy was nothing but an orchestrated play to extract money from my father and share the loot with the auto guy. Finally under police pressure my father had to pay the auto guy.

The police is inefficient and sometimes even an accomplice in the crime. Goons are well aware of this fact and therefore the rising trend.

[LogicalHindux]

Kudos to the car driver for maintaining patience and restraint. Not all people be humble as this guy, especially when their family is threatened. Sooner or later these rowdies will encounter someone who will not hesitate to run them over to save their family.

[Codetutor-DemystifyCoding]

I have known Bangalore since 90s and have been staying here since early 2000s but these kinds are incidents are happening only now. Until and unless a harsh punishment is set as precedent, this will continue to happen. Police needs to take this seriously. Dashcam is not a solution. It can only help after the incident has happened. We need to ensure that this doesn't even happen in the first place.

[afzaws]

I was attacked by a thug similarly in Bangalore for no fault of mine. He blocked his vehicle in front of me and came to my car and started hitting me saying that I used abused words. I never used any abusive language at him. I was unwell on that very day, was alone and was coming back after a long day in office. Was not able to react much and had to suffer a lot of blows for no fault of mine. It was in murugeshpalya, near GVC IT park, right in heart of the city in full view of multiple people but no one intervened. After the incident, I realized I am not safe in the city since I can be attached any time made up my mind to leave the city when I had a chance. I am not in Bangalore now and I am very happy about the same.

[rashmibelur]

I am surprised and also thankful that cops even lodged an FIR!!! It’s so difficult to convince cops!!!

[pradkm]

These are very common in Bangalore... similar issues has happened at least three times to me. Finally I sold my car and now using ola... living a peaceful life

[jjiteshh]

This has happened to me twice!

Incident 1:
I was with four children and my wife. A guy on his bike came a dashed my stopped vehicle from behind. It was holi day and obviously had was full of color and started abusing and smashing my window, challenging me to get down. I knew that instance this is a case of extortion and he is just going to try to bully my to take money from me. So I told him come ahead we will talk. Children in my car had already started to cry looking at his behaviour. So i just drove off hoping to reach the closest police station. This goon kept chasing me and i kept moving closer to the police station until finally he blocked my at an intersection. He was soo voilent that the car system finally gave up and unlocked the door by itself. I told me wife to get in the driving seat and go to police station which was less than 50 m away by this time. It was time for me to confront him and he got a head butt from me and he went down on the road. He got a beating from me as he might have unestimated my physical built while i was sitting in the car. Fortunately he dint have any weapon. Cops came and they too figured he was a total scam. He got more beating from the cops. End of day no lives were lost and my kids think I am a hero. The reality is i have never hit any one and i was tested that day. I hope it never happens again!

Incident 2:
I was out with a friend to look out for some farm lands outside of city. When a gang of 5 bikes with maybe 13 kids tried to blocked our way for no reason. Couple of the boys came up to my car and he was like why are you waving at us. While i was actually having my hand out of the car and enjoying the drive. He started to abuse me and said you will have to settle this and went to grab the car keys. The car was still on so it the keys dint come off. I floored the pedal to the metal while this guy was trying to stop the car with this hands. STUPID guys were trying to hold 150 horsepowers with their hands 😆 The gang leader fell down and the remaining jr gangster went to help him recover from his fall. I saw them in rear view mirror they were trying to follow me but i guess i lost them on the empty roads. I had to drive really fast !


Scary shit happening out on indian roads! SOS

[makT]

So had a similar incident 2 days back while coming back from a resort in kanakpura. They were in Skoda Rapid and just tried to kill us while we didn’t came out of the car they tried to break the glass and climbed on the bonet. I had to accelerate as they stopped the car 2 times. It was my family and a friend family in the car with 2 infants. We said sorry as that was only the way I thought would be good to stay away from them or to avoid the situation. We said we have kids in the car don’t do this but they just said we will kill you so come out of the car now. We aware shocked to see such level of evil. They were locals and what shocked me was they were not more than 25 years old. Traumatized, shocked. The sad thing is we didn’t had a dash-cam so couldn’t record it. We called the police and they said come to the nearest station. I mean then what these patrolling vehicle are for if we only have to go to a nearest station.

[TheNidhin]

I’ve been robbed back in 2010 when I was a student in Bangalore. They stole my mobile and hit me on the face. It happened in kanmanika near kumbalagodu.. I was traumatised mentally and recovered days after the incident. I didn’t reported it because I was young and vulnerable. Many people there should really need to learn what’s humanity and India is one country and people are the same and everyone have right to work and live anywhere they wish in this country.

[sangamesh__]

Being a Kannadiga myself, I do agree that few people have been harassing non-kannadigas for the fact that they don't know the local language. I've seen similar such instances.

[gumdrop]

I work in a MNC and was given an opportunity to relocate to bnglr. I said no because first thing is that I am a girl, second I speak only english and hindi. I rejected the offer though I was getting a promotion but I am so much scared of the rowdiness of bnglr people towards other people and scarcity of water.

[bhuppi]

I saw a 17 something year old local boy hurling abuses and slapping an old north-indian uncle. I have worked at Bangalore/Chennai/Gurgaon and I personally feel that Chennai is safest followed by Gurgaon. I have not worked at Pune and Hyderabad, but those likely are safer as well as colleagues who work there ne er complained about such things.
In Bangalore this trend of hate crime was started by Auto drivers. Looks like it has caught on.

[Rahulchandra]

If you are non kannadiga, you are likely to experience such situations 4X more than natives. If they sense you are from other state, you become their prey.

[salaigeethan]

Around 2008, when I was as a Kid, I visited Bangalore for the first time in my life and there was this incident which I vividly remember till now. It happened in a signal somewhere in Bangalore. I was travelling in car with my family and was curiously looking outside the window. I noticed someone behind our car was being chased. It was one old man driving a WagonR who being chased by some college teen in a bike. Unfortunately, the signal turned red and the WagonR stopped in the signal next to our car. That college brat stopped in front of that old man’s wagonR and started abusing him and calling him outside for few minutes. The old man stayed inside without reacting. Then this teen finally decided to break the WagonR’s side mirror using his bike key, and left. Fast forward 15 years. I still come across these kinda posts regularly in Bangalore Reddit Forum. Makes me think it has always been this way.

[somnathtimeline]

Instead of saying sorry rammed the car on them, in this situation your & your family’s safety is more important than their life.

[sourav]

they simply try to extort money by scaring cars with family if they have courage try to extort a car full of batchelors😡