12/05/2017
PUNE:Police
have arrested three drunk men travelling
in an SUV for allegedly making obscene gesture and
abusing two women traffic constables and
a male officer at Mammadevi chowk near
the race course on Pune-Solapur Road.
The incident occurred around
5.50pm on Wednesday when the men were asked to stop during a drive against
vehicles with tinted glass. The three men, residents of Ashoknagar in
Nigdi-Pradhikaran, ignored the police's signal to stop and kept driving towards
Golibar Maidan.
While passing by the traffic
constables, the driver lowered his window screen, hurled abuses and made an
obscene gesture at the women constables. The constables used their
walkie-talkie sets to alert the beat marshals and traffic constables manning
the square ahead. Police intercepted the SUV near Golibar Maidan.
On seeing the police
approaching them, the youths hurriedly broke a few beer bottles inside the SUV.
The smell of alcohol was too overbearing for the police to miss, when they
asked the men to get down from the SUV. They conducted a test on the trio with
a breath analyser and found them drunk. The trio then created a scene by
sprawling in front of a PMPML bus in a desperate bid to avoid police action.
One of the women traffic
constables later filed a case with the Wanowrie police against the three —Siraj
Rustam Ansari (24), Raju Gaikwad (23) and Kiran Gawali (25). All three were
arrested.
"We have charged them
with offences punishable under sections 509 (word, gesture or act intended to
insult modesty of a woman), 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation), 504
(insult with the intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 186 (obstructing
public servant in discharge of public functions) of the Indian Penal
Code," deputy commissioner of police (traffic) Ashok Morale told
pune-news.com
The three were also booked
for relevant offences under the Motor Vehicle Act for drunk driving, he added.
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