Man 'Abducts' Traffic Police Constable In UP When Asked For Car Documents, Gets Arrested

When Rawal (the accused) asked the police constable to step inside the car to check his documents, he was forcibly taken on a 10-km long drive before dumping him near a police station. 

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An FIR has been registered on a 29-year old man who allegedly abducted a traffic police personnel on duty. The incident took place in Greater Noida, UP, after Sachin Rawal, accused in this case, was asked to show documents of the car he was driving by the traffic police constable. 

The officials said that the car was suspected to be stolen and thus the police constable on duty wanted to check the documents. Rawal, on the pretense of showing the documents, asked the police officer to step inside the car and then was forcibly taken on a 10-km long drive. The accused later dumped the traffic police constable near a police station. 

“Accused Sachin Rawal had stolen the Maruti Swift Dzire from a showroom in Gurgaon, Haryana two years ago on the pretext of taking the car out on a test drive,” a police spokesperson told PTI.

The police started a vehicle checking campaign in Surajpur where the accused's car was suspected to have been stolen, as per the police inputs. “Rawal, who lives in Ghodi Bacheda village in Greater Noida, had put on a forged number plate on his car, the number of which was same as that of a car belonging to a resident of his village,” the police official said.

Virendra Singh, the traffic police constable was asked to step in the car by Rawal as he claimed to have the documents of the car in his phone. “However, Rawal locked the car once the constable sat inside and took off. He later dumped the constable near Ajayabpur police chowki and sped away,” the police spokesperson said.

 

Sachin Rawal was later arrested and an FIR has been registered against him under the IPC sections 364 (kidnapping), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), and 368 (wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement, kidnapped or abducted person). 

 

 

(With inputs from PTI)