• By Imran Zafar
  • Wed, 11 Oct 2023 06:15 PM (IST)
  • Source:JND

A woman e-rickshaw driver was caught on camera hitting a traffic policeman with her slippers in Ghaziabad’s Indirapuram area on Tuesday. The video of the incident has gone viral on social media platforms, sparking outrage and condemnation.

The woman repeatedly attacked the cop when he asked her to move her e-rickshaw from the site of a traffic jam. The viral video shows that the e-rickshaw driver pushed and slapped the policeman repeatedly in front of a crowd of people, while he tried to defend himself. After the woman did not stop, the cop eventually walked away from the scene.

"We had received several complaints of traffic jams due to e-rickshaws in the area. A traffic cop reached the spot and asked the woman to move her e-rickshaw from the site to avoid traffic congestion on the road. The woman e-rickshaw driver did not listen to the cop but the woman started misbehaving with him," ACP Traffic Police, Poonam Mishra said.

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The traffic department has lodged a complaint against the woman and said that action will be taken against her for not having a number plate on the e-rickshaw. A senior traffic police official said that the woman had been involved in similar incidents in the past and misbehaved with the cop.

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