Customs superintendent sent to jail for thrashing cop in Patna

TNN | Updated: Apr 15, 2020, 06:57 IST

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PATNA: A local court on Tuesday remanded a customs department superintendent in judicial custody for thrashing an assistant sub-inspector of traffic police near Kurji Mor under the Patliputra police station area in the city amid lockdown on Monday.
The superintendent was identified as Akhilesh Kumar, who was posted at customs headquarters near Income-Tax roundabout here. Kumar was arrested on Monday soon after the incident. He was produced in a city court Tuesday which remanded him in judicial custody.
SHO of Patliputra police station S K Shahi said a traffic police team was checking vehicles near Kurji Mor and stopped a man, Sachin Kumar, for riding bike without helmet.
“Sachin had no vehicle document either. When the cops asked him to pay fine, he rang up Akhilesh, who reached the spot in no time and started pressuring ASI Ramanand Patel to release the bike without realising fine. After an altercation, Akhilesh thrashed the ASI. While Sachin managed to flee, Akhilesh was arrested,” the SHO said.
He added that an FIR was registered against Akhilesh under sections 188 (disobedience to order promulgated by public servant), 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint) and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of Indian Penal Code.