Auto driver throws stone at MSRTC bus windshield

Pune: An autorickshaw driver vandalised a Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) bus on Friday night on the old Pune-Mumbai highway in Kasarwadi after overtaking it, but all 25 passengers on board and the transport utility’s staffers escaped unhurt.
The Bhosari police arrested the autorickshaw driver, Ramkisan Game (21) of Bhosari, and seized his vehicle soon after the bus driver, Sharad Parbhane (29) of Palghar, lodged a complaint.Parbhane in his complaint stated that the incident occurred while he was driving towards Pune from Palghar at a slow speed because of traffic on the highway.
“Game in his autorickshaw was trailing behind the bus in the traffic. He attempted to overtake the bus a few times on the Pune-Mumbai highway, but failed. This enraged Game. After he overtook the bus near the Kasarwadi signal, he stopped his autorickshaw in front of the bus and alighted from his vehicle. He hurled abuses at the bus driver and smashed its windshield with a stone. This was a case of road rage,” senior inspector Shankar Awatade of the Bhosari police said.
The officer said Game could not flee the scene because of the traffic. “The police personnel present at a nearby chowk impounded the autorickshaw and took Game to the police station,” he said.
The officer said the police had invoked sections 336 (endangering human life or the personal safety of others), 427 (mischief), 186 (obstructing a public servant in discharge of public functions) of the Indian Penal Code and the relevant provisions of the Prevention of Damage to the Public Property Act against the autorickshaw driver.