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A group of men attacked a policeman after he allegedly urinated at a roadside spot in the Pisoli area of Pune city on Sunday night, the police said, adding that they had got clues about the assailants from CCTV cameras.
P R Dimble, attached to the Bharati Vidyapeeth traffic division of the Pune city police, was injured in the attack and admitted to a hospital for treatment, the police said.
According to the police, Dimble was going home after work on Sunday night when he stopped his two-wheeler on the roadside in the Pisoli area to urinate. Four people came to the spot and allegedly attacked him badly.
After receiving information, a police team reached the spot and started searching for the assailants, and an FIR was registered at the Kondhwa police station.
A police officer said that videos captured by multiple nearby CCTV cameras were checked for clues about the assailants. A preliminary investigation revealed that the assailants were linked to the land where the policeman urinated. Before attacking the policeman, they are thought to have had an argument with him when they saw him urinating at the spot. It is also suspected that the assailants were unaware that he was a policeman, as he was wearing a jacket.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Rajkumar Shinde said, “An investigation into this incident is on. So far, we have identified two accused persons, and they will be arrested.”
This is the second incident in the past one week in which a policeman was assaulted in Pune.
In the early hours of October 6, Amol Katkar, a constable with the Crime Branch of the city police, was attacked on the head with a stick by two unidentified men following a road-rage incident.
The police said that Katkar was on his way home in Shivajinagar on a two-wheeler after work. His vehicle hit a motorcycle on Law College Road around 1 am, leading to arguments between him and two men on the motorcycle, who thrashed him badly with a stick. An investigation into the incident, which took place within the Deccan Gymkhana police station limits, is underway.
Meanwhile, MLA Rohit Pawar of the Opposition NCP (SP) held the Government responsible for the attacks on the policemen. He wrote on social media that leaders from the ruling parties had empowered goons.
