Duo booked for slapping policewoman in Pune

PUNE: Two young men were booked on Sunday by the Yerawada police on the charge of threatening and slapping a woman beat marshal in the evening. Both men belong to police families.
Police said the incident occurred in the evening when the beat marshal confronted the youths for loitering in front of the Vishrantwadi police colony without masks. “The woman beat marshal, attached to the Vishrantwadi police station, had received a call from the city police control room around 7.20pm about two youths quarrelling in front of the police colony in an inebriated condition. She reached the spot and asked the duo to stop fighting. The duo told her that they belong to family of police constables and one of them slapped her when she asked them to go home,” an officer from the Yerawada police said.
“The policewoman then summoned help from the nearby police station and the duo was booked ,” the officer added.