Returning from the Lajpat Nagar office, Mendiratta took the left turn near Hotel Management Institute. "As soon as I went about 400-500 metres, I noticed a white Pajero in front of me which had five people. I also noticed a man standing with bricks in both hands to my left and another sitting on the other side," he said.
"Initially, I thought the man standing on the left would hit the Pajero with the brick but he did not. Apprehending that he would hit my car, I started accelerating. But to my shock, the man sitting on the right hit my car with a concrete slab. It broke the front windshield, hit my left arm and I started bleeding profusely."
The lawyer said he was "lucky not to have lost control over the vehicle". He did not stop the vehicle and kept moving, hoping to find a PCR van. "However, I could not find any police at the turn of the Inderpuri main market where there is a police picket. By that time, I had also called up 100. At the next picket, I spoke to head constable Aslam and two others. A PCR van also arrived around 20 minutes later. I returned to the spot in the PCR van but no one was there."
Mendiratta said that while coming back, they also spotted the Pajero entering Inderpuri. "They also saw the person with the bricks."
Later, he was admitted to RML Hospital but has been released after treatment.
