Siddipet Traffic ACP creates stir, Shouts at police for booking DD case
Hyderabad: The Siddipet Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Traffic, Suman Kumar created a stir on Wednesday night, strongly objecting to Hyderabad traffic police for stopping his friend’s car and conducting drunken driving (DD) checking at SR Nagar metro rail station.
The traffic police checked the car driven by Kumar’s friend Jaipal Reddy using a breath analyzer. Reddy was found to be consuming 39 mg/ml of alcohol as against the permissible limit of 30 mg/ml. On seeing the SR Nagar Sub-Inspector G Kantha Rao at the spot supervising the drunken driving, Kumar, who was sitting beside the driver, came out of the vehicle and took strong objection.
As Kumar continued to argue with him, Rao using his manpack wireless communication device alerted the control room, informing that one Suman Kumar, who is an ACP of Siddipet is creating nuisance in a drunken condition.
Even as Rao was speaking to the control room, Kumar shouted, “How you hit my vehicle, which is bearing registration number TS08-JK 9459. You book a case.” As Kumar was arguing with Rao, a passerby intervened trying to pacify them saying, “As you both are from police department, it is not proper on you to behave like that.”
In all, four people were travelling in the car, which belongs to Jaipal Reddy. Based on a complaint lodged by Rao, the Madhuranagar police booked a case against Kumar under Section 131, 132, 221 (Obstructing public servant from discharging duty) and 238 (Causing disappearance of evidence) of BNS along Section 185 and 188 of Motor Vehicle (MV) Act.
“We first seized the vehicle and after collecting documents, we released it,” Rao told Deccan Chronicle on Thursday.