The Bengaluru City Police have registered an FIR and arrested a goods-vehicle driver threatening a two-wheeler rider with a knife in a road-rage incident that took place in Ramamurthy Nagar.

A civilian named Prakash Shaun tweeted a video of the road-rage incident and captioned it with “Today in Bangalore the Tata ace driver was using mobile and driving near Ramamurthy nagar bridge He dashed my vehicle from right side when my dad starting asking him he suddenly got down and took knife from the vehicle and started threatening us this must bring to police notice.”

According to Prakash Shaun, the road-rage incident happened on April 7. Besides Bengaluru police, Prakash tagged the Twitter handles of some TV news channels of some Kannada TV news channels. The Bengaluru City Police, who swift in their action, filed an FIR against the driver, traded and arrested him.

Later, the Bengaluru City Police tweeted, “A video is circulating online that shows a goods-vehicle driver threatening a two-wheeler rider in a road-rage incident. Please note: FIR has been registered (CR No 0180/2023) and the accused has been traced & arrested by Ramamurthy Nagar PS.”