3 assault lady PSI at Dadar Chowpatty

In the fourth such incident this week, a police sub-inspector (PSI) was assaulted by three men when she tried to stop them from entering the sea during visarjan. The incident occurred on Friday night at the Ganesh visarjan festivities at Dadar Chowpatty.

According to the police, the incident occurred around 11.30 pm on Friday when the woman police officer was on patrol duty at Shivaji Park Chowpatty during visarjan. “Three men were creating a ruckus and were trying to venture deep into the waters. Seeing that they could endanger their lives, the PSI asked them to step out,” said a police source from the Shivaji Park police station.

The source identified the men as Santosh Gaudar, Vinodkumar Parshi and Gajanan Pakale, all residents of Wadala. “They continued to venture into the water despite repeated warnings and when the lady officer gave them a strict warning, they started arguing and abusing her,” he said.

The argument allegedly escalated and seeing the ruckus, three male constables intervened.

All the three men started arguing with the constables also and allegedly pushed the lady officer. Officials revealed that all three of them were drunk and had come with some friends for Ganpati visarjan. The name of the woman PSI has been withheld to protect her privacy. The Shivaji Park police station has arrested the three and has booked them under sections 509 of the Indian Penal Code.

Meanwhile, two other policemen were assaulted and abused by a taxi driver in Trombay. According to the police, Rohit Vijay More (28) and another police sub-inspector were posted at a beat chowky in Panjarpole when the incident occurred. “Two taxi drivers were having an argument, when More who was nearby tried to intervene. The accused, a taxi driver, started abusing More and also held him by the collar and threatened him. The PSI who was also posted at the beat chowky saw the same then tried to intervene, and was abused too,” said an officer. The Trombay police then registered a case against the driver identified as Sachin Gadekar.