Woman held for slapping traffic cop in Rohtak, husband booked

COP ATTACKED AFTER HE STOPPED THEM FROM DRIVING ON WRONG SIDE OF ROAD

ROHTAK : A woman was arrested and her husband booked for slapping and abusing a traffic cop after he stopped them from driving on the wrong side of a one-way road in Rohtak.

The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon near Bhiwani stand and it was captured in the body camera of the traffic cop. The police said head constable Anil Kumar was on duty when he stopped a Ritz car and asked its driver to go back as he had entered the one-way route.

However, the driver of the car allegedly refused to go back and started arguing with the cop. After an exchange of words, he called his wife who came from a nearby shop and immediately started slapping the head constable.

The video footage shows the cop running away to save himself from the wrath of the woman, who allegedly chased him for some distance. “I did not want to manhandle the woman or quietly suffer as she slapped me, so I ran away from them,” Kumar said. The police said the woman, Preeti Devi, was arrested but her husband Virender Singh managed to flee.

A case under Sections 332, 353, 186, 506 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code was registered against the couple, who are residents of Rohtak’s Baland village. The police seized their car. The footage also showed the car driver alleging the traffic cop abused him first, but the police denied the charge.