Yogesh K Porwar
The Dabaspet police on Monday questioned former MP, Ananth Kumar Hegde in a road rage case where he was booked as prime accused along with his gunman and driver on Last Monday.
Mr.Hedge was arrested and later released on bail along with two others including car driver Mahesh and Gunman Sridhar,he appeared before the police for questioning and recorded his statement .
The Dabaspet police registered an FIR against the trio following a complaint by Saif Khan,a businessman , accused them of assaulting him and manhadled his family members over a road rage incident .
The incident occurred when Khan driving the car overtook Hegde’s XUV multiple times while returning from a family function.
Irritated by this Hedge’s XUV intercepted Khan’s vehicle near Hale Nijagala in the outskirts of Bengaluru,the driver and gunman dragged him out and assaulted .
The family members including women were also manhandled when they tried to intervene.
In the attack Saif Khan lost his tooth and left with bloodied mouth.He later called the police and filed a complaint accusing Hegde of instigating the attack after he identifying Saif as a“Muslim”.
