Apr 23, 2025 05:54 PM IST
Karnataka’s Deputy Chief Minister D Ok Shivakumar assured help for a motorist concerned in a highway rage incident with an IAF officer.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D Ok Shivakumar on Wednesday assured the motorist who was concerned in a highway rage incident with an IAF officer that the state authorities stood with Kannadigas if they’re in bother and that it’s dedicated to punishing the responsible.
Karnataka deputy CM DK Shivakumar.
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An FIR was registered towards a 40-year-old IAF officer on prices of try to homicide, felony intimidation and voluntarily inflicting damage based mostly on a counter-complaint by 26-year-old Vikas Kumar, a name centre worker, who was beforehand arrested on the officer’s grievance in a highway rage incident. Taking to social media platform “X”, Shivakumar posted a video of him talking to Kumar over the telephone and reassured that the Karnataka authorities stands with Kannadigas if they’re in bother. “I have called and reassured Kumar, who was attacked in connection with the Nagavarapalya incident. The Karnataka government stands with Kannadigas if they are in trouble; we are also committed to punishing the guilty,” he added.
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Indian Air Power Wing Commander Shiladitya Bose made an allegation in a video he shared on the social media platform that he was attacked and verbally abused by a gaggle of Kannada-speaking people who chased him on a motorbike in Bengaluru early Monday morning. Terming it a case of highway rage, police arrested Kumar, who works as a crew head at a software program firm’s name centre. He was launched on station bail on Tuesday.
Each events have attacked one another, and a few movies purportedly present the IAF officer roughing up Kumar, making a scene for the onlookers. The officer was captured partaking in an argument with Kumar and beating him up in full public view, whilst his spouse tried to cease him. Kumar, who was launched on station bail, in a video assertion on Tuesday stated, he won’t let go of the case, as he additionally expressed considerations about him dropping his job due to the incident.
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