Ghaziabad: A 34-year-old head constable of the Ghaziabad traffic police was dragged by a automobile for about two kilometres by three suspects whom he had tried to cease for not carrying seat belts in Indirapuram on Thursday, police mentioned. Police added that they arrested two of the suspects and booked them for tried homicide.
Police mentioned that head constable Ankit Kumar Yadav was close to the Shipra society together with a traffic sub-inspector and two different personnel at round 4.30pm on Thursday. They noticed a Tata Altroz with three passengers getting into Indirapuram from Nationwide Freeway (NH-9) and had been allegedly not carrying seat belts.
“After I tried to cease the automobile, the driving force accelerated the automobile and tried to hit me. Because of this, I landed on the bonnet of the automobile and held it, however the driver saved shifting. He drove for about two kilometres and rammed two two-wheelers close to Amrapali Greens and got here to a halt. One of the lads in the automobile fled the spot, whereas two different occupants had been nabbed by my colleagues who had been chasing the automobile,” Yadav mentioned in his police grievance.
Based mostly on the grievance, police registered an FIR beneath Part 186 (obstructing public servant from discharging public duties), 332 (voluntarily inflicting harm to discourage public servant from his responsibility), 307 (try to homicide) and 353 (assault or legal drive to discourage public servant from discharge of his responsibility) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Indirapuram police station.
The arrested suspects have been recognized as Abhi Tyagi, the automobile driver and a resident of Makanpur in Indirapuram and Akshit Tyagi, a resident of Ganaur Garhi Kesri in Haryana’s Sonepat. The third suspect who remains to be at massive has been recognized as Rakshit Tyagi, police added.
“The suspects didn’t cease their automobile even after realising {that a} policeman’s life was in hazard. Two of them have been arrested and the third suspect shall be nabbed on the earliest. Their act endangered the life of the traffic personnel and we now have registered an FIR in this connection,” mentioned Swatantra Dev Singh, assistant commissioner of police (Indirapuram).