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A special report on Postmortem examines the hit-and-run incident involving woman biker Shivani Chauhan, also known as Siya, on Gurugram's Golf Course Road.
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00:16Satsang with my friends
00:17The fall is a very big deal.
00:19The fall is a very big deal.
00:19It's really hard.
00:20After a year of 12,000 people,
00:21and I have found two videos.
00:22I said yes, it is a good deal.
00:24But I said yes,
00:26We don't want to teach them all.
00:32I saw that they probably keep drinking.
00:36I tried to get them a little bit.
00:38I was afraid of driving the car.
00:47He was trying to chase me from starting to chase.
00:49I was trying to chase.
00:54Shivani Chauhan, also known as Sia,
00:57was chased and hit by men in a car.
01:03And left sprawled on a busy road in a city
01:06also called the Millennium City, Gurugram.
01:12She was hit on Gurugram's Golf Coast Road,
01:15a posh area that boasts one of the costliest real estate in the country.
01:20But what does all that money get you in this country?
01:24Not even a shred of a feeling of being safe.
01:27Imagine how Shivani felt during those moments
01:30when she was hit by that car.
01:33Her head bangs against the car after being hit.
01:36But as astute bikers do, she's wearing a safe helmet.
01:41But she still knows that there is a danger
01:44of coming under the rear wheel of that offending car.
01:48That would mean instant death.
01:50But she's lucky that day.
01:53Ironical to say it, but yes, lucky.
01:56As she was saved from sure death.
01:58And she rolls down the road as the car speeds away.
02:04Imagine the impact of that hit.
02:06A bike that lost the hand on accelerator,
02:10but had so much momentum that it kept skidding on the road
02:14for almost 70 to 100 meters.
02:17Now let's flash back to a few minutes before the hit.
02:22It was September 13th.
02:26Sia was out riding with other bikers on Golf Course Road.
02:30According to her account,
02:32she first noticed the white sedan behind her.
02:35She says there were people inside.
02:39The windows weren't dark.
02:41And she suspected the occupants might have been drinking.
02:45Then she says the car began coming close to her motorcycle.
02:50Not once. Repeatedly.
02:52She tried to move ahead.
02:54Her logic was simple.
02:56Put some traffic between herself and the car.
03:00She wasn't racing.
03:02She wasn't looking for trouble.
03:05And then another rider noticed what's happening.
03:10He moved behind Sia.
03:12He tried to shield her motorcycle from the sedan.
03:15The footage from the rider's cameras would later become
03:19the most important piece of evidence for this case.
03:23There was a witness.
03:26A camera.
03:26According to Sia, the occupants of the car were making gestures at her.
03:33At one point, she says, the windows came down.
03:37She could not clearly hear what was being said because she was wearing a helmet.
03:43But she says she repeatedly asked them to move away.
03:49They did not.
03:50Her account is that the car continued following her.
03:54And that was when fear became something more immediate.
03:59Not the fear of being fined.
04:03Not the fear of a traffic accident.
04:06The fear that someone in a much heavier vehicle might deliberately knock her off a motorcycle.
04:17Now for many women who drive or ride on Indian roads, the danger is not always the traffic itself.
04:25Sometimes it is the behaviour of the person behind the wheel.
04:30The intimidation.
04:32The unwanted attention.
04:34The aggressive overtaking.
04:37The vehicle deliberately coming too close.
04:40And the mental calculation women are often forced to make.
04:45Do I confront this person?
04:47Or do I just get away?
04:49Sia chose to get away.
04:51At least she says she tried.
04:55But she failed.
04:56Now you see that the road bends.
04:59Traffic moves.
05:00Sia shifts towards the third lane.
05:03And according to her account, the sedan suddenly comes across.
05:08The video captures that moment.
05:10The car changes lanes.
05:13It hits the motorcycle.
05:15Sia falls.
05:16The motorcycle continues sliding across the road.
05:20Now another biker whose helmet camera had captured the incident goes after the car.
05:25At one point, the sedan stops at a traffic signal.
05:30There is a confrontation.
05:32And then the car leaves again.
05:44Sia is taken to the hospital.
05:46The video is uploaded.
05:48And within hours, the incident is no longer just a traffic story.
05:54It is everywhere.
05:56Sia is taken to the hospital.
05:58Sia is taken to the hospital.
05:59After the accident and the accident is gone and it is taken to the hospital.
06:10It is taken to the hospital.
06:20videos and registered a case against an unidentified person.
06:50three teams were formed cctv footage from the area was examined investigators began trying to
06:58identify the driver and soon they had a name kalyan baesla but baesla wasn't at his home the search
07:09apparently was widened and then another question emerged whose car was it the registered owner
07:16identified by india today said he was serving in the army and was out of town he said he had
07:23given
07:23the car to a school friend for two days that friend was kalyan baesla then according to the owner's
07:31account baesla told him that another person had taken the vehicle the owner said he barely even
07:38knew that person
07:39Our brother's car is in the army, and his friend is calling him, and the guy has dropped his car
07:48to give him a car.
07:49Kalyan Vaisla Treetri Gujar.
07:53He took it, he did accident.
07:55We didn't have anything to give him.
07:57Our car came, and we're not getting there.
08:01The police came?
08:02Yes, the police came.
08:03He took the number one.
08:07So the investigators were now looking at a chain of possession.
08:13Who had the car?
08:15Who was driving?
08:16Who else was inside the car?
08:18And who knew what?
08:20The answers mattered because this was no longer simply about ownership of the vehicle.
08:26It was about reconstructing what happened in those few seconds on golf course road.
08:33Then the accused decided to turn the blame finger towards the victim herself.
08:40Vaisla gave a very different account.
08:43He denied deliberately hitting Sia.
08:47His version was that there were numerous bikers on the road.
08:51And that they were repeatedly changing speeds and slowing down, and that the situation had escalated.
08:59He questioned the videos circulating online.
09:02He said the footage did not show the entire sequence.
09:07And he claimed he had not even known that the rider he collided with was a woman.
09:14He described the collision as completely accidental.
09:17He said,
09:30He said,
09:31He said,
09:32It's good, but don't do it again and don't do it again and it will go.
09:38Okay, okay. Then I go.
09:40Then, when I came back to him, how did he come back?
09:45Do you think?
09:46When I came back, he said that he came back.
09:48Now, I came back to the video.
09:49Then, let's go.
09:52I didn't know that he came back.
09:54I came back from the back.
09:57Okay?
09:57Here, you can see Tata's car.
10:01On the side.
10:02He came back.
10:03He came back.
10:04He came back.
10:04Okay, let's go.
10:05You have to see them.
10:07Okay.
10:09They, without seeing them, you're a professional driver.
10:13Without seeing them, you're a professional driver.
10:14Without seeing them, you're a motorist.
10:16Look at the side of the green tree.
10:19He came back.
10:20He came back.
10:20No, I didn't control it.
10:22Then, I asked him.
10:23I asked him.
10:24I asked him.
10:24I asked him.
10:26I asked him.
10:27I asked him.
10:30I asked him.
10:30I'm a family.
10:32What did I do to fight with him?
10:33Then, he left me at batta.
10:35I told him.
10:37I didn't do that.
10:38I went back.
10:39I told him.
10:39Brother, he wasn't a mistake.
10:40He didn't fail.
10:41But, Siyah rejected that explanation.
10:45Her response was equally direct.
10:48If the collision wasn't accidental, why did he not stop?
10:53Why did he not get out of the car?
10:56Why did he not check whether she was alive?
10:59Why did the car just simply leave?
11:02And then she challenged another part of his account.
11:06She said the driver had seen her,
11:09had followed her, had gestured to her,
11:12and according to her,
11:14had even noticed that she was a woman.
11:17Then I saw that they probably had been drinking.
11:21There were also two people in front of the car
11:25who were all black and I couldn't see exactly what it was.
11:29I tried to get her a little bit,
11:32because I was scared of the car driving the car,
11:35driving the car, driving the car,
11:37driving the car,
11:39so I was scared to kill myself.
11:41I saw that I would go a little further,
11:43and I was scared to get the car,
11:45and they would not need to cross the car,
11:46they would go back and go back.
11:47But she would try to keep the car and take it
11:52and put it on the car as well.
11:54When it was cut,
11:56and I got out of the car,
11:58and I was on the side of my third day,
12:00so I got out of the car as well.
12:01So I saw that the car had so fast,
12:03and the car had a tire on the tire,
12:06and the tire was blown away,
12:06and the tire was blown away.
12:08So this incident was so big,
12:25There are now two crucial visual records of that incident.
12:29One from the action camera mounted on Sia's superbike, another from a fellow rider's
12:35helmet camera.
12:36Sia says both show the same essential sequence.
12:41The car moves across lanes.
12:43The motorcycle is deliberately hit.
12:46She is thrown off.
12:48The car leaves.
12:49Her argument is that the footage speaks for itself.
12:53Baisla on the other hand has argued that the viral clips don't provide the complete context.
12:59That dispute will ultimately have to be tested against the full evidence, including CCTV,
13:06the original footage and witness accounts.
13:09But the video changed the investigation because this was not simply one driver's word against
13:16another.
13:16There was a full digital trail.
13:19There was a lot of pressure on the other side, but it was slow on the other side.
13:23It was slow on the other side.
13:24It was slow on the other side.
13:48so I think so
13:50my whole video shows me who was pinching me
13:54and if you feel like we are driving the bike
13:59and slow driving, what does it mean to me to chase the whole road?
14:05and as I was saying that I didn't even know that the girl is running
14:09so I can't do that
14:11obviously my back was a very long hair
14:15my little girl was made
14:16you saw it, you came, you did action
14:19you told me to stop the bike
14:22and after that I was saying that the guys were 20 people
14:26and why did the two videos come and why did the rest not come
14:29I don't understand that for the hit and run case
14:33there are two videos enough
14:34initially the case did not carry an attempt to murder charge
14:38but after analyzing the footage and recording their statement
14:43in my video
14:44who was pinching me
14:47Gurugram police added section 109
14:50of the Bhartiya Nyai Sahida
14:51which is attempt to murder
14:53sections 78 and 79 of the BNS
14:57were also added following her statement
14:59relating to stalking and words, gestures or acts
15:04intended to insult the modesty of a woman
15:06police said that the CCTV analysis indicated
15:10that the car was driven into the motorcycle deliberately
15:14and that the FBI but the fight
15:16that the escalation was mashing
15:19which had hit the side
15:20the dog came from the side
15:21because it has been already
15:21it's been speech
15:22and the police that have been
15:25done in their area
15:27that they will not be able to kill
15:29the police
15:29really
15:30this has been going to happen
15:32in some kind of work
15:48That changed the legal character of the case dramatically from a suspected hit and run to an investigation that included
15:58an allegation of an intentional attempt to kill.
16:21But by then, Bainsla was absconding. His phone was switched off. Police teams began searching for him. The hunt moved
16:29beyond Gurugram.
16:30And eventually, investigators traced him in Rajasthan. But by then, the time to do any kind of alcohol test in
16:40the blood was gone.
16:43On September 15th, crime branch Sohna teams arrested Bainsla between Dousa and Rajka.
16:56A.S.I. and R.I.D.C. Constable team came from Tona and R.I.D.C. Constable.
17:02The video you were watching in the social media, it was also found that it was found that it was
17:09identified by the R.O.P.
17:16They were detained by the Kalyan Vensla and Lovenees.
17:23After that, we were determined to take the Guru Gram.
17:30The police have been sent to Kastridi for two days.
17:33They have to say that they have to take knowledge about it.
17:37That's why the police have been sent to the police.
17:39The police want to recruit the scene to the crime scene.
17:42It is the procedure.
17:43We have also opposed it.
17:45We have also argued.
17:46There are a lot of things in the remand.
17:48Because it has been sent to Kastridi for 307-129.
17:50It has also been added later on.
17:53There are a lot of things in the court.
17:55We have also opposed it.
17:56The car allegedly used in the incident was recovered.
18:01Another man, identified as Loveneesh, was also taken into custody.
18:06Even the arrest came with its own twist.
18:09According to police, after being apprehended,
18:13Baisla asked to go to the toilet.
18:15Police allege that he then tried to escape.
18:18He fell while attempting to flee and suffered injury.
18:25He was taken to the hospital for initial treatment.
18:30The man who had allegedly disappeared after the crash was finally in police custody.
18:37But a little bit too late.
18:40The investigation wasn't yet over.
18:43Because now there was another question.
18:46Who else was in that car?
18:48In her latest statement, Sia said there were two other people inside the car.
18:55She has demanded action against those people as well.
18:59She told the media that arresting Baisla alone would not be enough if others who were present were allowed to
19:07walk away.
19:21The police investigation will have to establish exactly who was inside the vehicle and what role if any each person
19:30played.
19:31There is another reason this case has resonated so strongly.
19:36Sia is a biker and she is a woman.
19:39Those two facts have collided in a way that has made thousands of women ask a very basic question.
19:46How safe are India's roads for women?
19:49This is a whole thing.
19:53If anyone runs a car or the driver sees the driver,
19:57she can also ride the bike.
19:58It is a very big thing today.
20:00A woman rides the bike.
20:03They look at their style and the car is showing the face down the screen.
20:09They are showing thumbs up and the bike is showing the thumbs up.
20:11Those riders often feel thumbs back.
20:23Siyah told Ashdug that she had been riding for around a year.
20:28She doesn't belong to a large formal riding club.
20:31Sometimes she rides with her cousin, sometimes she rides alone.
20:51She describes the women's riding community as relatively small and now after this incident she says she will ride again
21:02but she will be scared.
21:13The physical injuries may heal, the legal case may move through the courts, the accused may face trial.
21:23But what happens to the confidence of someone who now looks into her rear view mirror and wonders, is that
21:31car simply passing me or following me?
21:35Indian roads are already chaotic.
21:38Two wheelers share space with buses, trucks, SUVs, delivery vehicles, animals and pedestrians.
21:46But road safety isn't only about speed limits and helmets.
21:52It is also about behaviour.
21:55What happens when a driver uses the size and the weight of a car to intimidate someone on a motorcycle?
22:03What happens when a woman asks a driver to back off and the driver treats that as a challenge?
22:12What happens when harassment on the road is dismissed as just teasing?
22:18And perhaps most importantly, at what point does aggressive driving stop being bad driving and become a threat?
22:28The Guru Gram case has forced that conversation into the open.
22:33Not because every road confrontation is an attempted murder.
22:37It is not.
22:39But because women should not have to calculate their safety every time an unfamiliar vehicle comes too close.
22:49Well, that's all we have for you today in post-mortem.
22:52It's time for a short break now.
22:54Keep watching India Today.
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