2 drunk men held for verbally abusing police officers

Coimbatore: Two drunk men were arrested for abusing police personnel, including a woman traffic police officer, in as many separate incidents in the city on Tuesday.
In the first incident, 34-year-old S Bethukumar, of Ondipudur in the city, was arrested for verbally abusing a special sub inspector attached to Kattoor police station in an inebriated state.
According to a police officer, they had arrested Bethukumar, who was drunk, for disturbing traffic flow and causing inconvenience to the public in the early hours of Tuesday. He was booked under Section 75(1) (b) of Tamil Nadu City Police (TNCP) Act for breaching public peace and then let off on station bail.
“A few hours later, Bethukumar came back to the police station and verbally abused special sub-inspector G Mahalingam for arresting him. While we warned him to leave the station several times, he continued to threaten the official of dire consequences,” the official said.
Subsequently, the special sub inspector lodged a complaint against Bethukumar and the Kattoor police arrested him under Section 294(b) (for uttering obscene words), 353 (for preventing the official from discharging his duty as public servant) and 506(i) (for criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). He was produced before the judicial magistrate, who remanded him in judicial custody. Later, Bethukumar was lodged in the Coimbatore Central Prison.
In a similar incident, the Saravampatti police arrested 27-year-old J Vijayaraj after he abused a woman traffic police officer, who stopped him near Textool in the city on Tuesday for drunk driving.
A police source said the incident took place when M Sudha was on traffic regulation duty. “She stopped him for drunken driving. However, Vijayaraj entered into an altercation with her and threatened her of dire consequences. Based on her complaint, we arrested Vijayaraj under Section 75(1) (b) of the TNCP Act, and Sections 353 and 506 (ii) of the IPC.