Transporter run over by police van for not paying bribe

GHAZIABAD - A transporter was severely injured when a police control room (PCR) van ran over him as he refused to pay bribe to a policemen in Ghaziabad’s industrial area, police said Tuesday.

According to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rahgubir Lal, two brothers Ram Nath Yadav and Siddhu Yadav had come here Monday from Varanasi with their trucks loaded with ghee.

A policeman from PCR van No. 11, stationed near Lal Kuan in Kavi Nagar Industrial Area, went up to the truck and asked the two brothers to pay up Rs.100.

When Siddhu Yadav refused to give the bribe, the policeman pulled him down from the driver’s cabin. When he still declined to shell out the money, the PCR van ran over him and dragged for several metres on the road.

The PCR van was occupied by constables Parvinder Kumar and Farman Ali and home guard Vinod Kumar.

The policemen then picked him and took him to MMG Hospital and reportedly dumped him outside.

Ram Nath Yadav informed the Kavi Nagar police and filed a complaint. An FIR was registered against the two constables and the home guard. While the two policemen have been arrested, the home guard is absconding, the SSP said.

Siddhu Yadav suffered multiple fractures and has been shifted to Shivam Hospital.