Road Rage In Mumbai: Kirti Chakra Award-Winner Assaulted By Five Brats; Police Arrests Three Of Them

Lieutenant Colonel Anup Joseph Manjali, a Kirti Chakra Award-winner, was beaten up by five youth in road rage in Malad (West), Mumbai, in the early hours of Sunday (6 January). Manjali is being treated at a suburban hospital for a dislocated shoulder and injuries to eyes, forehead and head, reports The Hindu.

Manjali was awarded Kirti Chakra, nation’s second highest peacetime gallantry award in 2013, for killing three terrorists who had sneaked into Jammu and Kashmir in 2012. He was with the Rashtriya Rifles at that time.

Senior inspector of Bangur Nagar police station, Vijay Bane, said that of the five attackers, three accused were booked under Sections 325, 324 and 34 of the Criminal Procedure under Indian Penal Code. The accused - Sagar Vinay Singh (21), Shaun Merrian D’Souza (25) and Khizara Abbas Hasan Zaidi (21) - were produced by police in the court on Sunday (6 January).

Manjali told the paper that he was waiting for his mother to be dropped off by a relative. One of the men came riding on the footpath with two women riding pillion. When he stood his ground, he was pushed out of the way with the bike. One of the women had gotten down from the bike and started abusing and screaming at him. Two more bikes reached in a few seconds and started beating him up with helmets. He says he neither raised his voice nor reacted physically.