Chances are you've already seen some version of this clip. Doesn't matter if you follow Gurugram news or not, it's been everywhere. Woman on a sports bike. White sedan pulls alongside. Swerves in. Bike goes down, skids a few metres across the tarmac, and the car just... keeps going.
That's the whole reason this is a national story now and not a two-line police report nobody reads.
The rider goes by "Sia" online. Hasn't shown her face, doesn't plan to. On Sunday she was out on her Aprilia RS 457 when, by her account, a Maruti Ciaz started tailing her on Golf Course Road, driver making hand gestures telling her to pull over. She didn't. A friend riding behind tried boxing the car out so it couldn't cut in front of her.
Didn't matter. Car swerved anyway. Caught her bike from the side. Down she went.
She put the dashcam footage up herself, with a voiceover that didn't dress anything up. Felt unsafe on these roads, she said, adding that people out there clearly aren't scared of hitting someone and just driving off. Her injuries turned out minor, thankfully. Can't say the same for her bike.
Social media had a name attached to the driver within hours: Kalyan Bainsla, who calls himself an international kabaddi player and a member of the Indian rugby team on his own profile. Nobody's actually verified either claim, worth saying.
And then it gets messier. The car itself belongs to someone else entirely, a man named Manish, an Army soldier from Palwal who was on duty in Assam when this went down. Nowhere near Gurugram. He says a friend, presumably Bainsla, borrowed the car off his family that day, and that he only found out anything happened once the clip started doing the rounds online.
Gurugram Police say their social media monitoring cell flagged the footage, and they filed an FIR out of Sector 56 station off their own initiative. Here's the odd part though: that FIR still reportedly names the accused as unknown, even with Bainsla identified publicly and, apparently, dodging arrest. Three police teams chasing one guy, and as of writing, no luck.
When he finally did talk, to a TV channel, his version didn't match hers. Not intentional, he says. Claims the bikers kept overtaking him and slowing down in front of the car, that he had no idea the rider was a woman, that the viral clip is missing context. He said he was sorry she got hurt, for what that's worth.
Same video. Two completely different stories about who actually started it.
Sia's brother says there were four men in that car, not one, and all of them drunk, and that they'd been making offensive gestures at his sister before any of this happened. Says she's genuinely shaken by it. Her father wants an attempt-to-murder charge on the table, calling it deliberate, full stop.
Meanwhile Bainsla's lawyer went a different direction, one that hasn't landed well with basically anyone online: suggesting, per Hindustan Times, that the whole thing is about her chasing followers and publicity rather than a real complaint. You can guess how that's been received. More than a few commentators have pointed out this is a pretty familiar script whenever a woman says she was harassed on the road.
Sia's stuck to her original stance. No interviews, no face reveal, but her lawyer has confirmed she's taking this to the police properly rather than letting it become another clip that gets forgotten in a week.
Gurugram's roads already have a reputation, and it's not a flattering one. Bikers there have been complaining for years about aggressive drivers and road rage that turns violent fast, with the general sense that reporting any of it goes nowhere. What made this one different is almost embarrassingly simple: there was clear footage, and it happened to a woman, which tends to pull a story like this into something bigger than one bad afternoon on Golf Course Road.
A fairly sharp piece in ThePrint framed the whole thing less as a traffic incident and more as something structural, the kind of everyday aggression men on the road reach for when a woman's alone and, in their heads, needs to be taught a lesson. Whether that framing survives contact with an actual investigation is anyone's guess right now.
For the moment, the video's still spreading, the FIR still doesn't have a name on it, and the man everyone's talking about is still missing.
A woman biker known online as Sia says she was chased and deliberately rammed off her bike on Gurugram's Golf Course Road by a car allegedly driven by Kalyan Bainsla, all caught on her own dashcam and now widely viewed online. Bainsla denies it was intentional and says he didn't know the rider was a woman and that the bikers cut him off first.
Police have filed an FIR but, oddly, still list the accused as unknown, even as multiple teams hunt for Bainsla, reportedly avoiding arrest.
Sia's family is pushing for an attempt-to-murder charge, while the accused's lawyer has suggested she's after publicity, a claim that's drawn its own backlash online. The case has turned into a bigger flashpoint about road rage and safety for women on Indian roads.
