Nilanjana Chatterjee, who suffered fractures in her left leg while trying to save a woman who was screaming in a car on the night of September 5, told a judicial magistrate on Monday that she wanted exemplary punishment for the accused.

Accused Abhishek Kumar Pandey, who was at the wheel of a Honda City, allegedly knocked down Nilanjana with the car before speeding off.

“I have pleaded with the learned judicial magistrate that the accused be given exemplary punishment so that someone else planning to commit a similar offence would think twice before doing so,” Nilanjana told The Telegraph, hours after she left the magistrate’s chamber at the Alipore court lying on a stretcher. “The intention was to kill me. I told the learned judicial magistrate that my right leg was folded after I fell. Else the car would have gone over both legs.”

She was returning home with husband Deep Satpathi in their car when she heard screams of a woman from inside another car near the Ruby crossing. Deep stopped their car blocking the way of the other vehicle — a Honda City — and the woman who was screaming was allegedly thrown out. When Nilanjana tried to approach the woman, Pandey allegedly sped off and the car ran over her left leg. He was later arrested.