PUNE: Hadapsar developer Sumit Tilekar (37) and his wife, Shraddha (27), surrendered before the Wanowrie police on Monday, three days after a young woman wrestler suffered a fracture on her left forearm in a road rage incident on Friday.
Tilekar was accused of abusing and attacking the victim, Vaishnavi Thube (23), with a stick following a dispute over his SUV grazing the leg of her sister-in-law, Pranjal Chattar, at Fatima Nagar Chowk. Chattar was riding pillion on Thube’s scooter.
Tilekar and his wife had filed a bail plea on Saturday before the Pune Cantonment court, which allowed it. “The couple surrendered at the Bhairobanala police chowkey on Monday evening. We arrested and released them according to the court’s bail order. We have seized the stick and the SUV. We have invoked charges under sections 326 and 506 (2) of the IPC after the injured victim furnished a medical certificate showing that her forearm was fractured,” said sub-inspector Bhushan Potwade.
Tilekar told TOI, “The woman’s bike had grazed my car, but she picked up a dispute, accusing me of grazing her pillion rider’s leg. She intercepted my car and sat on the bonnet, misbehaved with me and pushed my wife. We pleaded with her to let us travel because my son was seriously ill, but she did not relent. I was in a hurry to meet the doctor. I hit the woman with a stick because I mistook her as a boy. We have shared details with the police. The woman has made false allegations. We shall be registering a counter-complaint against her after consulting our lawyer.”
Thube said, “The car had grazed the legs of my sister-in-law. I had asked the SUV driver to drive slowly, but he abused me. My sister-in-law told him not to misbehave with a woman, but he brutally attacked me. I did not misbehave.”
