A road-rage collision on a busy road in Gurugram that could have ended a woman biker’s life has turned into a full-blown legal battle, with police invoking an attempt-to-murder charge against the accused driver and the injured biker publicly challenging both the accused and the system meant to protect her.
Dashcam and CCTV footage that has spread across social media shows a white sedan (Maruti Ciaz car) swerving sharply toward the woman riding an Aprilia RS 457 sports motorcycle on Gurugram’s Golf Course Road and hitting her on the side on Golf Course Road on Sunday, September 13.
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The impact threw the rider, who is known publicly as Sia, to the ground while her bike skidded across the tarmac, throwing off sparks as metal scraped asphalt. Rather than stopping, the car driven by the man identified as Kalyan Bainsla accelerated away from the scene, leaving the injured woman on the road.
“It was a clear hit-and-run and attempt-to-murder case,” said Sia, who survived the crash but narrowly avoided far graver injury. She has insisted that the incident was no ordinary accident but a deliberate act that could easily have killed her. A video clip of the crash shared by Sia has been widely seen and drawing sympathy for her and anger at Bainsla.
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Sia was part of a larger riding group that morning. The accused, Kalyan Bainsla, runs a gym and describes himself as a former international-level Kabaddi player. That background has added an unusual layer to the public conversation around the case, with many online contrasting his athletic and fitness credentials with his conduct after the crash.
Bainsla has since spoken to a reporter, insisting that only one version of events has reached the public. He has also claimed he was unaware at the time whether the person he struck was a man or a woman. He has also pointed to unreleased footage involving a male member of Sia’s riding group, suggesting the fuller picture has not been told.
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“We will not rest until the accused is punished,” Sia’s father, Rohshan Chauhan, has said publicly, stepping forward to reinforce the family’s resolve to pursue the case until the accused faces consequences.
Golf Course Road, where the collision took place, is a stretch of Gurugram frequently used by cycling and biking groups, particularly during early-morning rides. Two days after the incident, Gurugram Police moved to file an attempt-to-murder charge against Bainsla, a significant escalation from the rash-driving or hit-and-run provisions that typically follow such cases. The attempt-to-murder charge alone carries a maximum sentence of ten years in prison.
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The case has struck a nerve well beyond Gurugram because it taps into a broader, long-simmering frustration over road safety and impunity for reckless drivers in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR). Sia herself has framed her fight in these terms, arguing that authorities tend to react only after a cyclist or biker is killed, while placing disproportionate restrictions on two-wheeler riders instead of scrutinising dangerous four-wheeler drivers.
Sia’s question — why enforcement seems to arrive only in the aftermath of tragedy — has resonated with many who ride daily in India’s cities and feel similarly exposed. Her insistence that she will keep fighting until the accused is held accountable, rather than let the matter quietly fade, has also driven sustained public interest, transforming what might have been a local traffic story into a talking point across the country.
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“Playing with the law will not be tolerated at any cost,” Gurugram Police said in an official statement, assuring strict action against those responsible after a review of the CCTV visuals that captured the collision in detail. That resolve translated into action on Tuesday, September 15, when Bainsla, who had been evading police since the crash, was traced and taken into custody in Dausa, Rajasthan. A police team is now expected to bring him back to Gurugram, which is in Haryana, where he will face further questioning under the newly added charge.
Sia, in her own account, has pushed back hard against Bainsla’s public remarks, in which he expressed sympathy for her ordeal. She has argued that his conduct in the moments after the crash contradicts any claim of concern, noting that genuine sympathy would have meant stopping immediately to check on her condition rather than fleeing. She has stressed that the footage leaves little room for interpretation: the vehicle did not pause, even briefly, to determine whether the person it had struck was alive.
As the police investigation proceeds, the case sits at the intersection of a specific criminal probe and a wider public reckoning over road behaviour, accountability and how differently the law treats two-wheeler and four-wheeler drivers on the same roads. For now, both the police case and Sia’s own resolve to “set an example,” as she has put it, remain very much in motion.
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“I have suffered injuries to my knees by falling. It was my riding gear that spared me from far worse harm. If I did not have proper riding shoes and gloves on, the impact of the fall could have fractured my shoulder or left me with a broken leg,” Sia said on Tuesday to reporters, giving a clearer picture of the physical toll of the crash.
