A police officer sustained head accidents after being attacked with a stick by a person obstructing visitors within the Malad space of Mumbai on Tuesday. (Photograph by Anshuman Poyrekar/ Hindustan Instances)
The incident befell 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 observed a visitors jam and received 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 triggered Sawant to lose consciousness and fall, the official stated.
“The accused fled the scene, leaving the stick behind. The other two officers in the mobile van quickly rushed Sawant to Tunga Hospital in Malad, where he regained consciousness after treatment,” the official stated.
In the course of 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 below the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS). No arrests have been made, the official added.
Related incidents
Earlier in October, a viral video from Bengaluru’s Indiranagar confirmed a lady confronting a visitors police officer close to the ESI Hospital junction. Amid a visitors jam, the girl was seen kicking, shouting, and making an attempt to take away the officer’s physique digicam, whereas yelling in Hindi that the officers would lose their jobs.
The Bengaluru visitors police division responded to the viral video, confirming {that a} case had been filed. “A criminal case has been registered in Indiranagar Police Station and the accused has been arrested,” the police wrote on the social media web site X.
In a separate incident, a resident of Bihar assaulted an on-duty visitors police sub-inspector in February after his nephew was issued a challan and had his bike confiscated in Punjab’s Ludhiana.
The division number one police have filed an FIR in opposition to 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 started 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 number one police, who arrived on the location and started an investigation. A case below sections 353, 186, and 506 of the Indian Penal Code has been filed in opposition to the accused.