3 'assault' ASI at Police Lines gate in Chandigarh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 26

An auto-rickshaw driver and two others, including a woman, have been booked for allegedly assaulting a UT police ASI and snatching his mobile phone after he objected to wrong parking.

According to the police, ASI Amrik Singh was on duty near gate no. 1 of the Police Lines, Sector 26, on December 25 when an auto driver parked his vehicle there. The parking of vehicles near the gate is prohibited.

Sources said when the ASI objected to the parking of auto there, the driver, his brother and their mother entered into an altercation with the cop. The police said the trio assaulted the ASI and pelted him with stones. The assailants fled the spot after snatching the ASI’s mobile phone. The ASI failed to note down the registration number of the auto.

The police were informed about the incident following which a case under Sections 323, 353 and 379-A of the IPC was registered at the Sector 26 police station.

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