On-duty police officer thrashed to death by truck driver in Patiala

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On-duty police officer thrashed to death by truck driver in Patiala

Sunday, 31 March 2013 | PNS | Patiala

 

A Punjab Police officer on traffic duty, who was allegedly assaulted to death by a truck driver on Friday night, police said on Saturday. The victim is the third police officer to be killed in Punjab in recent months.

Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Ravinder Pal Singh Mangat had signalled the truck to stop at the campus being constructed for the Rajiv Gandhi National law University here.

However, the truck driver did not stop. Mangat chased  the truck and stopped it, but was allegedly assaulted by the driver.

ASI Ravinder Pal Singh, who was injured in the assault, was taken to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, police officials said.

The police have arrested the truck driver and booked him for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

The ASI was on duty on the university campus on Friday night as the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court was to visit. Police said that the truck was asked to stop, owing to the VIP visit.

An ASI died in mysterious circumstances when he went with a police raiding party to a village in Tarn Taran district earlier this month to take protesting farmers’ leaders into preventive custody.

In December last year, an ASI lost his life after he was shot dead while trying to stop a ruling Akali Dal leader from harassing his daughter near Amritsar.

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