In a shocking incident of road rage, a teenager dragged a traffic policeman on the hood of his speeding car for nearly 1.5 kilometers after the cop had tried to stop the 19-year-old driver who jumped a traffic signal in Maharashtra’s Palghar district.

According to reports, the incident happened in Vasai area, nearly 60 kms from Mumbai, on Sunday evening, when traffic police constable, Somnath Chaudhary, stationed at a busy junction in Vasai, spotted a car bearing Uttar Pradesh registration jumping traffic signal.

The traffic cop asked the driver to stop, however, the accused suddenly accelerated the vehicle and hit the constable, who fell on the car’s bonnet and was dragged for around 1.50 km. A police official said that Choudhary sustained injuries in the incident and has been hospitalized.

Visuals showing the constable being dragged on the car’s bonnet were captured on nearby CCTV cameras.

Reports said the driver was soon forced to stop his car due to a traffic jam. The driver was jumped by bystanders who pinned him down and handed him over to the cops.

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A senior official said that the 19-year-old accused was driving without a license and has booked under under sections 307 (attempt to murder), 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide) and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and other provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act.

Further investigation is ongoing, he added.

In a similar incident, an unidentified man was dragged under a speeding car for nearly 12 kilometers after allegedly being run over by the vehicle on the Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh during early hours on last Tuesday morning.

According to the police, the body was caught in the under-frame of the car and dragged for nearly 12 km. The erring driver– Virender Singh, a resident of Delhi– who has been arrested, has claimed that the victim had died in a different accident and his corpse got stuck under his car, police said.

The accused driver, who was driving from Agra to Noida at around 4 AM on Tuesday morning when security personnel at a toll booth near Mathura on the Yamuna Expressway noticed the mangled body caught under his car.

Singh blamed low visibility for not realizing there was a body caught under his vehicle and claimed that the man had already died in some other accident. He told the police that he was unable to see due to the thick fog on the Expressway and never noticed the body stuck under his car.

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A horrific incident has come to light from Haryana after a speeding SUV runs over an assistant sub-inspector of Gurugram’s traffic police on Saturday. The incident occurred at Ambedkar Chowk in Sector 52 at around 4:30 pm

According to the reports, the driver also dragged an ASI for about 50 meters before running an SUV over him. The tragic mishap happened after he signalled the SUV driver to stop during the checking of vehicles.

Soon after, the ASI, identified as Harpreet, was rushed to the hospital. The doctors state his condition is critical. The ASI also suffered a broken leg in the accident.

The police said the 35-year-old Harpreet was checking vehicles with a home guard and a constable. The officials further said Harpreet signalled the driver of an SUV with tinted windows to stop when he saw it.

Instead, the driver of the SUV accelerated and dragged Harpreet for around 50 meters. After he fell down, the accused ran over him and fled the spot.  

The Sector 53 police station has registered a case against the unidentified person on a complaint by Constable Sombeer.

Inspector Amit Kumar Station House Officer of Sector 53 police station said We identified the vehicle with the help of CCTV footage and are trying to identify its owner through the registration number. We will nab the accused soon.

The police are currently investigating the matter and are on the lookout for the accused. The police said stringent action would be taken against the accused.

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