TURA: A young entrepreneur who runs the popular Red Door Cafe here, was severely assaulted by a couple, a government teacher and her male partner, merely because he was unable to give way for their vehicle to overtake in a steep route on the outskirts of Tura on Saturday morning.
The incident happened when the Red Door Cafe owner, Brenden W Momin, was returning to the restaurant from Rongkhon where he had gone to pick up gas refill cylinders.
“I was driving up from Rongkhon to Tura with five gas cylinders in my vehicle when a Mahindra Thar Jeep behind me repeatedly wanted to overtake despite the road being so narrow with vehicles coming to and fro. When I was able to finally give him space to overtake he started blocking and driving haphazardly,” recalled Brendon Momin while speaking to The Shillong Times after the incident.
The occupants of the Mahindra Thar vehicle,Sonam G Momin and her partner Hitler Sangma, halted their vehicle in front of the Municipal Hub market at Ringrey and acosted the cafe owner who was with his elder brother in their Ford Ecosport vehicle.
Claiming that they were shown indecent gestures, both the woman and her partner began attacking the cafe owner throwing punches on him even though he tried to reason it out with them over the overtaking issue.
The woman is a teacher in the Government Boys’ Higher Secondary School in Tura.
The assault did not stop there and when the young cafe owner who was bleeding arrived at the Tura police station to lodge a complaint, he was again slapped by the same woman, in utter disregard for the law.
Shockingly, police did not take up any suo moto case on the grounds that the matter was compromised after the accused couple apologised to the victim.
Also, when the injured cafe owner pointed out to the police officials at the thana that the jeep belonging to the two attackers had illegal tinted glasses and no number plate at the back, they merely responded by saying that it was the job of the traffic personnel.