An IAF officer has been attacked twice for not speaking in Kannada in Bengaluru while on his way to the airport. Wing Commander Aditya Bose was with his wife when the incident happened. The officer has since posted videos narrating his ordeal, and a post in which the attacker came prepared with a key to attack him.
“Today morning, my wife was driving me to the airport. And suddenly, one bike came from behind, stopped in between, and stopped our way. He started abusing me in Kannada. When he saw the DRDO sticker on my car, he started saying many things in Kannada and then finally abused my wife,” he said in a video posted on his Instagram.
He added, as blood flows from the wounds profusely, “I couldn’t bear him abusing my wife. When I was stepping out of my car, he attacked me with a key on my forehead, and blood started coming out… When I asked him if this is how he treats people from the Army, Air Force, Navy, more people came, surprisingly, and started abusing us, saying that we are doing wrong things.”
The officer then narrated the incident. “That person took a stone and tried to hit my car. When I tried to stop him, he hit me on my head again. My wife was there, thankfully, to take me out.”
He added that they went to the police station, but there’s no response as of yet. “This is what Karnataka has become. I believed in the Kannadiga cause, but seeing the truth, the reality of the main heartland Karnataka, I couldn’t believe it,” he expressed, before pleading, “God help us.”
In a separate video recorded from the airport, he shared that he was on his way to the airport to catch a flight to Kolkata, where he planned to admit his father to the hospital for surgery. At the time of the incident, his wife was driving him to the bus stop. He added that when he tried to stop the attacker from smashing his car window with a stone, the man struck him on the head with the same stone and even bit his finger during the scuffle.
In yet another Instagram post, he revealed the identity of the attacker and urged people to help find him so that the “law can take its course”.
Police have been investigating the matter and said that, as of now, it appears to be a case of road rage.