A toll plaza employee was reportedly assaulted after being dragged for nearly eight kilometres on a bonnet of a car for nearly eight kilometres on NH-8 on Saturday, 13 April, after asking the car to stop.
Two persons have been arrested in the case and the car involved in the incident has also been seized, ANI reported.
The incident took place at around 12:40 pm when the victim, Ashok Kumar, tried to stop an Innova car at Kherki Daula toll plaza, police officials said.
“The car, with four occupants, in a bid to run away without paying toll tax, hit the boom barrier.”Rajesh Singh, DCP told PTI
“Kumar came out of the booth and the errant driver hit him hard, following which he fell on the bonnet. The driver then pressed the accelerator paddle,” he added.
Kumar in his statement said that he saved himself by holding onto the car's wipers.
“The accused persons took Kumar to an isolated place some eight kilometres in Manesar. They then assaulted him. One of them, Sumit Singh, also threatened him with dire consequence if he approached police.”Rajesh Singh, DCP told PTI.
“The car driver dragged me for 5-6 kilometres on his car’s bonnet on a speed of about 100 km/hr. He said,’You’ll stop my car? Even police doesn’t stop my car’,” news agency ANI quoted the victim as saying.
In visuals from CCTV camera footage, the car can be seen driving past the plaza even as the toll employee tried to stop him. The employee can be seen holding on to the car’s bonnet as it zooms through a busy road.
This is, however, not the first time that such an incident has come to light in Gurugram.
In a similar incident in December last year, a man attempted to drive off, hitting and dragging a police officer on his car’s bonnet, after he was stopped by the cop for driving on wrong side of the road.
(With inputs from ANI and PTI)
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