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| Taj’s guards assault traffic police officer | | FIR lodged, 2 held | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Sept 10: Two security guards of Minister for Public Health Engineering, Taj Mohi-ud-Din were taken into custody late this evening for beating a traffic police officer to pulp when he tried to prevent them from violating a traffic signal near TRC here, police sources said.
Reports said the cavalcade of the Minister while heading towards the Minister's residence at Gupkar violated a traffic signal near the Tourist Reception Centre this evening. Reports said the traffic official; Mohan Lal took serious note of jumping the red signal.
The guards, reports said, beat the official to pulp causing severe injuries to him. He was later shifted to a hospital.
Curiously the Minister fled from the spot o `escape wrath of the angry people who assembled there to express solidarity with the injured traffic official.
"It is sheer hooliganism. Look, they didn't even spare their own companion. How you can expect that these men in khaki to protect people? It is a police state and this incident proved that a common man is not safe here," one Hilal Ahmed, present on spot, told a news agency.
DIG Traffic, Shafqat Watali seems determined to book the erring security guards of the Minister. "We will not spare them", he said.
Watali said an FIR had been lodged. "A manhunt has also been launched to nab the culprits", he said. When asked that offenders having affiliation with big guns freely bypass the law, he said that this time it will not happen.
Superintendent of Traffic Police, Srinagar city, Haseeb-ur-Rehman expressed shock over the incident. "We are aghast and puzzled. When Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has no objection in following traffic rules, how can these men violate the law!" Rehman said and added that strict action will be taken against the offenders.
Pertinently, Abdullah has set an example of following rules by stopping his cavalcade at a traffic signal and waited for green light in Srinagar in May.
The Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) and Traffic department recently installed traffic lights at certain busy intersections in the city but many people, mostly bureaucrats and politicians have failed to pay any heed to the new signals.
The Kothi Bagh police station confirmed the arrest of two men. They have been identified as Mohammad Shafi (372 security) and Mohammad Abbas (219, 3rd Battalion, security). |
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