Traffic cop thrashed, three held by locals

In one of the bizarre incidents of the law-enforcers taking the heat from those who defy rules with impunity, a traffic police deputed at (Bahal Chowk) Rajpur Road in Dehradun was thrashed by three persons, sitting in a car-all drunk-when they were stopped for driving on the wrong direction of the road from Mussoorie to Dehradunon Friday night. 

locals intervened and saved the policeman from taking more of the punches from the delinquents. The uniform of the cop was found torn.Constable Dharmendra Kumar was directed to check the cars taking wrong direction. With the help of the locals, three persons were arrested by the police. The police conducted medical test of the trio in the Doon Hospital and they were detected to be drunk at the time of the incident. The trio was identified as Deepak Sharma, car driver and native of Delhi, Ajay Sharma and Aakash Thapa, residents of Patelnagar, Dehradun.A case under appropriate sections of IPC was registered against the accused in Dalanwala police station. The accused were sent to jail after being presented in the court on Saturday, said Dalanwala police officer in charge Anil Kumar Joshi.