Bengaluru, Sep 30: A scuffle over bus passes turned ugly when a woman BMTC conductor allegedly bit two hands of students in public on Thursday. The incident took place near Kammagondanahalli off Jalahalli, north Bengaluru.
As his destination neared, Gowda stood near the door to get down at Kammagondanahalli. Aruna asked him to stay away from the door. He replied that he was going to alight at the next stop. The conductor walked up to him and asked for his bus pass. When Gowda took out the pass and showed it to her, Aruna reportedly snatched it and kept it in her pocket.
Just before his destination arrived, the student asked the conductor to return the pass. But she told him to collect it at the bus depot. Gowda got angry and started arguing with her. He demanded why she was refusing to return the pass immediately. At this juncture, his friends, Praveen and Pavan, joined him and asked Aruna to return the pass.
Meanwhile, the bus reached Kammagondanahalli. The students alighted from the bus but kept demanding the return of the pass. The spat got out of hand when one of the students put his hands in Aruna's pocket to retrieve the passes.
Footage captured on a mobile phone showed the conductor biting one of the students, before the latter pushed her to the ground. Eyewitnesses told reporters all of them alighted, and Aruna began to attack one of the students. When another student interfered, she bit him in the hand.
Personnel from the jurisdictional Jalahalli traffic police station rushed to the spot and tried to pacify the conductor, but she argued with them and tried to assault the students. The traffic personnel alerted their counterparts from the Gangammanagudi police station.
Another team of policemen came and took the conductor as well as the students to the police station. Gowda and Aruna filed complaints against each other.
A traffic police constable who was in the area tried to pacify her but she continued to attack the student till he pushed her.
Though eyewitness accounts called Aruna the aggressor, she also suffered injuries in the scuffle. She was sent to KC General Hospital for treatment and later shifted to Nimhans.
While Aruna has been booked on assault charges, Puneeth, Praveen and Pavan have been booked for attacking a government servant.
Not her first time
According to police, it wasn't the first time that Aruna was involved in a fight with passengers. On June 4, she had been detained for attacking a passenger.
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