VASAI: A Traffic cop from Virar traffic division of the Mira Bhayandar Vasai Virar (MBVV) commissionerate was seen assaulting people on Friday morning around 10:30.
He was recorded while hitting a couple of people with his lathi. The location of this video was said to be near Khaniwade Toll Plaza on the Mumbai Ahmedabad National Highway (NH48).
Later it was confirmed by the Virar traffic branch that their constable was involved in a scuffle with a tour bus driver and its cleaner/assistant.
On Friday morning there was a terrible traffic jam on the national highway in Virar, around the Khaniwade toll plaza.
The moment there is traffic, vehicles start moving on the wrong side for faster travel. This bus (mp 44 zc 6688) which had come from Gujarat end, was moving towards Mumbai in the wrong side direction, meaning, on the palghar bound lane, along with several other vehicles, which created additional traffic as the bus was too big to be on the wrong side.
“The bus driver and his assistant had a scuffle with our traffic cop during which they allegedly assaulted him”, confirmed Virar traffic senior police inspector Mahesh Shetye. Post this, to make sure the situation doesn’t escalate the traffic cop, identified as Dnyaneshwar Maruti Ghuge, used his lathi, he added.
He also confirmed that the bus driver and his assistant were told to move his bus to the Mumbai bound lane, to which they refused and hence the argument started. We are investigating this matter and shall soon report the findings to our seniors, confirmed Shetye.
In the video the traffic cop was also seen hurling abuses and using his lathi with full force, but the people who were hit are yet to be identified.
