A senior police officer deployed in the Home Minister’s convoy was assaulted by National football players who were stopped from performing stunts at high security zone near Governor House in the State capital on Thursday.
Police said that on Thursday morning when the OSD with the Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta, Additional SP Sandeep Dixit spotted few bikers performing stunts near the Governor House, he stopped there and requested the bikers not to perform stunts near Governor House as it is a high security zone and performing stunts would endangered their lives as well.
However, instead of listening to the police officer, the bikers started quarreling and abused him. They even jostled with Dixit and the fight was pacified when the commuters intervened.
Dixit informed the local police about the incident and soon police personnel reached the spot. Three youths were detained who were identified as Hasan Rizwi, Umed and Shakeeb. The three were arrested under section 151 of the IPC.
The youths are residents of Koh-e-Fiza locality and one of the accused Hasan Rizwi is son of former hockey Olympian and Arjun Awardee Jalaluddin Rizwi.
While talking to The Pioneer Jalaluddin told that the incident took place when the three were returning after attending football camp at Barkatullah University. When Dixit found Shakeeb riding bike in a wrong manner he was told to stop which gave rise to a brawl between the two while Hasan and Umed who where on another bike went ahead and returned only after they found that Shakeeb was engaged in a brawl and when they reached the spot they tried to rescue Shakeeb but by the time the officer had already decided to book them.
Attitude of the police towards the youths was not at all acceptable as they were detained in the lock up at the TT Nagar police station and were treated as criminals. The three were released at around 4 pm by the police after they were produced before magistrate, he added.