In yet another attack on toll booth workers, a man allegedly attacked a Public Relation Officer (PRO) of Skylark Company at the Kherki Daula toll plaza on Friday afternoon. The employee of the toll plaza did not allow the accused’s Maruti Wagon R car to pass the barricade without paying the toll tax.
The accused has been identified as Kiranpal (39) of Baghanki village in Gurugram and he was arrested by police from the spot. According to the police, the victim Kirpal Singh stated in his complaint that on Friday around 12.05 pm a Maruti Wagon R car reached the toll plaza and when the toll attendant asked the driver to pay toll fee, the driver showed a registration certificate of the vehicle registered at the address of Manesar village whose residents are exempted from paying the toll.
The toll attendant felt that there was some error in the documents and asked the driver to stop the vehicle in order to search the car. In the meantime, the driver called up the owner of the vehicle Kiranpal.
“The man thrashed me and even threatened to kill me. He abused and kicked me as well. The other toll operator saved me from the man and Later I had reported the matter to the police, the victim said in her complaint,” Kripal Singh, PRO of Skylark, the toll operator stated in a police complaint.
“The car owner reached the toll plaza and hurled abuses and attacked the victim, due to which he suffered injuries and was admitted to the civil hospital, sector-10 for further treatment,” police said.
A case in this regard has been registered under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at the Kherki Daula toll plaza and further investigation is on,” Boken said.
It was a third incident on the toll plaza in the span of eight days. On June 21 a woman toll collector was allegedly slapped and then punched by a man after she stopped him from passing the barricade without paying the toll tax.
Also, on Thursday Kripal Singh the PRO and another toll employee were allegedly dragged by two residents of Rampura village on the bonnet of their car for about 200 metres. In both the incidents, the culprits have been arrested.