Thaindian News

Greater Noida, Sep 4 (IANS) Three policemen, including a sub- inspector, were badly beaten up by villagers while they were checking vehicles in the Bisrakh area of Greater Noida Saturday morning, officials said.
According to Bisrakh police station officer Harish Chand Joshi, Sub-Inspector Raj Singh, along with constables Dharmendra Dixit and Lal Ram, was checking vehicles on the Haldoni T-point near Jalpura and stopped three youths, all minors, riding on one motorcycle.

“The boys neither had any paper nor a driving licence. They were all minors. When our team started seizing their vehicle and began the challaning procedure, the youths misbehaved with our staff personnel,” he said.

The youths also started calling their friends and family members. Soon two cars, full of people armed with iron rods and hockey sticks, reached the spot and the police team was attacked.

The injured policemen were later taken to a nearby local hospital from where they were referred to district hospital in Noida.

The sub-inspector sustained fracture in his right hand and ribs, while the two constables suffered severe internal injuries.

Till Saturday evening, ten people involved in the attack were identified in the incident and two of them had been arrested.