Forrmer Miss India Universe Ushoshi Sengupta has spoken out about a sustained and sustained attack her colleague and their Uber taxi driver.
Ms Sengupta told how 15 boys dragged the cab driver out of his car on Tuesday night and beat him severely, after several of them on one motorbike collided with the vehicle as it was turning at a junction.
They then followed her and a colleague home, dragged her from the car and tried to break her mobile phone to destroy the video she had filmed of the earlier attack.
Former Miss India Universe Ushoshi Sengupta, pictured here at the 2010 I AM SHE beauty pageant that she won, was assaulted twice by the same gang of biker youths on Tuesday night
The beauty queen turned media and film star related harrowing details of the attack in a Facebook post that also slammed police for incompetence and lack of interest.
She was travelling with a colleague following a late-night work appointment at the JW Marriott Kolkata hotel in the capital of India's West Bengal state, her home city, when the first attack happened.
'My Uber driver was beaten up and I stood up for him,' she told NDTV.
'When I started taking a video and asked them why they were not wearing their helmets, why two to three of them were on a bike, another guy came and tried to stop me from taking their video.'
One youth from the gang of bikers harangues the Uber cab driver after colliding with the car at a junction, then others join in the argument that ended with the driver being dragged out and beaten
Joint Commissioner of Kolkata Police, Crime, Praveen Tripathi, announced on Wednesday that seven of the assailants had been arrested the night before.
Mr Tripathi said the seven had been detained for 'allegedly harassing the complainant, assaulting an Uber driver and vandalising the cab.'
He named the suspects as Sheik Rahit, Fardin Khan, Sk. Sabir Ali, Sk. Gani, Sk. Imran Ali, Sk. Wasim and Atif Khan
'A detailed inquiry is going on into the case,' Mr Tripathi assured.
But Ms Sengupta painted a very different picture of the police response to the crime, saying they
