Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Another incident of public assault on a police constable has been reported from Bag Sewaniya on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. A drunk property dealer was spotted at RRL trijunction in Bagsewaniya.
When police approached him and stopped him from doing so, he manhandled the cop and, in a bid to flee, boarded his vehicle and drove it over cop’s leg. After the incident was reported to police, they arrested the accused and seized his vehicle.
Bag Sewaniya police station TI Amit Soni told Free Press that the cop who was injured was Suman Kumar posted at Bag Sewaniya police station. He approached police on Sunday stating that he had been patrolling in the area on Saturday late night, when he spotted a man who had parked his vehicle at RRL trijunction and was consuming alcohol inside it. When Kumar told him to go home, the man began to argue with him.
As the argument escalated, Kumar told the man to come to police station along with him. The man grew furious and stepped out of car and scuffled with Kumar. When Kumar tried to stop him, the accused boarded his four-wheeler and tried to speed away, during which he ran it over Kumar’s leg. Kumar narrated the incident to police on Sunday morning who sifted through CCTV footages and swooped down on accused named Siddharth Agrawal, a property dealer. The cops have seized his vehicle too.
