4 drunk men attack traffic cop; arrested

HYDERABAD: The Dundigal police arrested four persons, who in an inebriated state attacked Jeedimetla traffic police personnel, at Suraram on Saturday night.
Mohammed Yousuf, 29, Ch Kiran Kumar, 36, B Praveen Kumar, 38, and M Nishanth, 30, who were in a Volkswagen Vento (AP 28 BR 4849), sped away during a routine vehicle checking at Suraram at around 10.30pm on Saturday.Inspector Mathew Koshy stopped a biker and with his help chased the car and intercepted it at Hanuman Nagar in Dundigal.
“The driver and passengers threatened to book an SC/ST case against me. But with the help of other policemen, I caught them and handed them over to the Dundigal police. All the accused were drunk and cases were booked against them under appropriate sections of IPC,” Koshy told TOI.