Pune: A car driver and his accomplice were booked by the Hadapsar police on the charge of kicking a traffic constable in the stomach when the latter tried to remove the vehicle’s ignition key during a traffic jam at Handewadi Chowk around 5.30pm on August 10. Sub-inspector Vinod Pawar on Monday said traffic constable Ajinkya Nangude (34) from the Handewadi traffic police was diverting vehicles to clear the way following a traffic jam, when he signalled the car driver to stop.
But he kept moving ahead with his vehicle and added to the congestion. Pawar said Nangude then tried to remove the ignition key of the car. “This infuriated the driver.
He first hit the constable’s left hand with some object. Later, he got down from the vehicle and kicked the constable in the stomach,” the officer said. When contacted, Nangude said, “The car driver abused me twice and clicked my photos.
He sped away, taking advantage of the chaos after my colleague intervened in the dispute. The car driver would be arrested at the earliest because the witnesses have given the registration number of the vehicle to the police.” Around the same time, another car driver, Maruti Mane (22) from Manjri Budruk, abused the same traffic constable for issuing him an e-challan over a violation of traffic rules.
The police have filed a case against Mane and arrested him on the charge of attacking a public servant under Section 132 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Nangude added. There have been multiple inc.