Chennai: A 40-year-old man, an autorickshaw driver succumbed to the injuries he suffered in a road rage brawl with a youth near Kodambakkam on Friday night. The accused, S Bharathi, an office assistant at an advertising firm in Samiyarmadam in Kodambakam was arrested on Saturday on charges of murder.
Police said that the duo got into an altercation in United India colony in Kodambakkam when both of them exchanged verbal volleys about driving unsafe. The deceased, identified as K. Micheal is a resident of Puliyurpuram in Kodambakkam and was returning home for lunch.
The accused, S. Bharathi is a resident of Foreshore Estate. He was on his way to a bank at United India colony for office work on his two-wheeler when the two of them got into a quarrel.
“Both of them accused each other of driving rashly and in the melee they came to blows. The accused had hit the auto driver with his helmet and pushed him to the ground,” a police officer said. Onlookers rushed to the aid of the auto driver who fell unconscious.
He was moved to the Kilpauk Medical College Hospital for further treatment where he died later in the night.
Kodambakkam Police altered the case to murder and arrested the youth.
He was produced before a court and remanded in judicial custody.
