Hare Street: Titir Banerjee, the woman who had captured on video a scooter rider stopping to pick up a stone and smash the windshield of her car at Esplanade a week ago, received a call from a police officer on Friday asking for stills of the incident and pictorial evidence of the damage.

Titir and her father, 69-year-old Deepankar Mondal, had filed a complaint with Hare Street police station within a few minutes of the attack by the still unidentified scooter rider at the KC Das crossing around 9.45pm on July 13.

The call from the police station came on the morning Metro reported the attack.

"I reached the police station around 10.30am. The police officer who had called asked me to arrange printouts of stills from the video clip I shot of a young man on a scooter hurling a stone and shattering the windshield of our car. I was also advised to take photographs of the car with the damaged windshield and the registration number plate clearly visible," Titir said.

She had submitted the video clip of the road-rage incident while lodging the complaint.

Deepankar hasn't got the windshield of the Ford Figo replaced yet because he presumed that the police might want to "see the evidence" later.

"My father decided not to replace the windshield, anticipating it would be an important piece of evidence during the investigation. The car is still parked at our home with the damaged windshield," Titir said.

When she asked the police officer on Friday why stills of the stone attack and photographs of the damage to the windshield weren't asked for seven days ago, he allegedly cited more important duties.

"I asked the officer whether he could not have taken printouts of stills from the video clip and photographs of the car earlier. He politely told me that the police were preoccupied with preparations for the July 21 (Trinamul) rally at Esplanade," Titir said.

"I asked the officer whether I should come back with the printouts and photographs after the July 21 rally and he said it would be really nice if I could visit on Monday."

The scooter rider had apparently targeted the Figo after Deepankar ticked him off for riding his scooter dangerously. The man, who wasn't wearing a helmet, followed the car from Ganesh Chandra Avenue till the KC Das crossing. The video clip recorded by Titir on her mobile phone shows him picking up a stone and hurling it at the windshield in one swift movement before speeding away past a red light and turning left.

Titir had started recording the video on her mobile phone after the accused allegedly kicked the car and banged on the window. This was immediately after Deepankar asked him why he was riding the two-wheeler dangerously.

While the man's face is clearly visible in the video clip, the police have yet to get the scooter's registration details.

"We don't have the registration number. We are in the process of collecting CCTV footage from the crossing and its nearby intersections," said an officer at Hare Street police station.

"We have requested her (Titir) to come after the rally day. We are treating the case with the importance it deserves and everything possible will be done to trace the accused," the officer said.