Gujarat: Man beaten with iron rod for objecting to honking

AHMEDABAD: A 30-year-old man was beaten by a father-son duo near Subhash Bridge Circle with iron pipes for objecting to their constant honking.
The complainant — Parag Modi, a resident of Nirnaynagar who works at a private firm, stated in his FIR with Ranip police that he and his wife Prachi Modi had gone out for dinner at a hotel near Subhash Bridge off the RTO, Ahmedabad.
“I parked my two-wheeler in the parking area in front of the hotel and was talking to my wife.At that time, a man who came in a white car, started honking constantly. When I objected to the honking, the man, who was on the driver’s seat, came out of his car and started abusing me. When I asked him to desist, he took out an iron pipe and started hitting me with that,” stated Modi in the FIR.
Before Modi could understand anything, another man, who was aged around 60, came out of the car and started punching him in his stomach.When Modi’s wife tried to rescue him, she was heckled and pushed away by those men.
Modi was later rushed to trauma ward of Civil Hospital in Asarwa in an 108-ambulance where he was treated for multiple injuries on his head and chest.
Modi’s wife called police, and the offenders, identified as Devendra Makwana ,35, a bank employee, and his father Purushottam Makwana, 61, both residents of Chandkheda were arrested.
“We have arrested the two men on Sunday late night and booked them under charges of assault and causing injury,” said inspector J P Patel of Ranip police station.
Sources in the police said that Modi had felt affronted as the two were constantly blowing horns in front of his wife.