Man assaults Jodhpur cops on being stopped for not wearing mask, held

JODHPUR: City police arrested a person for threatening and assaulting two policemen when they questioned him for not wearing mask at a public place and initiated to fine him.
The man protested the move of the police asserting that he was wearing mask and began to threaten them saying that he would pierce their eyes pointing fingers to them.
Situation turned quite adverse when he tried to run away from the policemen who caught him by his hand. This infuriated him and he started slapping and punching abusing on them. He also severed the badge of one of them and tore off the uniform. In this fracas, he fell down and a policeman pressed his neck with his knee for a brief period to control him.
A video of the incident went viral in which the accused was seen browbeating the policemen and they were pressing his neck with knee to control him.
“We arrested him and sent him to the judicial custody," said SHO (Devnagar) Somkaran adding that a case has already registered against him for piercing the eyes of his father with a spanner last June.
Describing the incident, Somkaran said that the two constables were on duty at Pahla Pulia on Thursday evening when they spotted Mukesh Kumar (40) without mask. They warned him against not wearing mask and asked him to pay the fine, which infuriated him and he began misbehaving and threatening the constables.
“When they tried to catch him while he began to flee, he beat them and tore the uniform of one of them. He was finally controlled and arrested for assaulting a government servant on duty and prevent and deter him for discharging his duty”, the officer said.
No action, however, has taken against the policeman, who pressed his neck on the ground in order to control him, inspite of the possibility of irrecoverable damage to the accused.
TOI tried to contact the police commissioner, but he did not return the call.
A senior officer, not willing to be named, said that pressing of his neck was just to control him and lasted for a couple of seconds. He said that it was not intentional and aimed at teaching a lesson to the accused for his deeds.