Couple caught for not wearing helmet abuses, spits on cop

THE POLICE SAID THE COUPLE ALSO THREATENED TO ABDUCT THE CONSTABLE AND ASSAULT HIM

A couple was arrested for spitting on and assaulting a police constable at Thane on Thursday after he stopped them for not wearing helmets.

The incident was captured on video by many passers-by. The couple — Imtiyaz Honnaali,25, and Girishma Nayar,24 — lives in Ambernath. The girl is a graduate and the boy does odd jobs.

Both were produced in court and remanded in police custody till Monday. Police said the couple was going back to Ambernath via LBS Road after drinking alcohol in Thane.

“As the couple approached the barricades, they were asked to stop but they tried to dodge the cops and flee. Our police constables ran behind them and stopped them. The couple was then asked to disembark from the bike and when we checked them with a breathalyser, we found that both of them were heavily drunk,” said R Malekar, senior police inspector from Wagle Estate police.

Later, they were taken for a medical test, which confirmed that they were under the influence of alcohol. They first abused the constable and later spat paan on him, said the police.

Malekar added, “The couple also threatened to strip the police constable of his clothes.” The police said the couple also threatened to abduct the constable and assault him.

They were booked under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code and Motor Vehicles Act.

The Bombay HC asked the Central Bureau of Investiga tion (CBI) on Friday to submit a chart detailing the names of con victs in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gang rape case and how long they have been incarcerated for.

In November last year, a divi sion bench of justices VK Tahilra mani and Mridula Bhatkar had reserved judgement on the appeals filed by the CBI seeking an increase in the convicts’ sen tences and the appeals of 11 con victs challenging conviction.

The bench asked CBI counse Hiten Venegaonkar to submit a chart detailing the sentences awarded to each convict, “the exact time they have spent in jai pending trial” and the period of their imprisonment following their conviction. In January 2008 a city court had jailed 11 people for life for gang rape and murder of a pregnant woman.