A 52-year-old police officer sustained head accidents after being attacked with a stick by a person obstructing site visitors within the Malad space of Mumbai in Maharashtra, information company PTI reported citing officers on Wednesday.
The incident came about on Tuesday when Assistant Sub-Inspector Manik Sawant was patrolling the Kachpada locality in Malad alongside his colleagues in a police van.
What occurred?
ASI Sawant seen a site visitors jam and bought out to clear the street on Tuesday, after which he noticed a person intentionally blocking autos, in accordance with an official.
The officer then approached the person, pulled him apart, and requested him to depart the spot. Enraged, the person threatened to kill the officer, picked up a stick, and struck Sawant on the pinnacle. The blow brought on Sawant to lose consciousness and fall, the official stated.
“The accused fled the scene, leaving the stick behind. The opposite two officers within the cell van shortly rushed Sawant to Tunga Hospital in Malad, the place he regained consciousness after remedy,” the official stated.
Throughout the investigation, police recognized the accused as Arun Harijan, a resident of the Kachpada space.
Primarily based on Sawant’s grievance, a case was filed charging the accused with tried homicide beneath the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS). No arrests have been made, the official added.
Comparable incidents
Earlier in October, a viral video from Bengaluru’s Indiranagar confirmed a lady confronting a site visitors police officer close to the ESI Hospital junction. Amid a site visitors jam, the lady was seen kicking, shouting, and attempting to take away the officer’s physique digicam, whereas yelling in Hindi that the officers would lose their jobs.
The Bengaluru site visitors police division responded to the viral video, confirming {that a} case had been filed. “A felony case has been registered in Indiranagar Police Station and the accused has been arrested,” the police wrote on the social media website X.
In a separate incident, a resident of Bihar assaulted an on-duty site visitors police sub-inspector in February after his nephew was issued a challan and had his bike confiscated in Punjab’s Ludhiana.
The division no 1 police have filed an FIR towards the accused and arrested him. The accused has been recognized as Vinod Kumar Rai from Bihar residing in New Madhopuri.
Sub-inspector Sulakhan Singh defined that they’d stopped a biker for checking, however he failed to supply the automobile’s paperwork and didn’t have a driving license. The sub-inspector issued a challan and impounded the bike. Later the biker referred to as his uncle, who arrived on the scene and commenced arguing with the officer over the challan issued to his nephew. The accused then assaulted the officer and obstructed his duties.
The officer instantly notified the division no 1 police, who arrived on the location and commenced an investigation. A case beneath sections 353, 186, and 506 of the Indian Penal Code has been filed towards the accused.
