Two suspects bite, fracture Navi Mumbai cop’s hand

PUNE: An assistant police inspector from Navi Mumbai, who had gone to Chandannagar to arrest two suspects wanted in several property crimes, sustained a fracture to his hand and other injuries after he was attacked by the duo on Saturday night.
The two suspects bit the cop and assaulted him with an iron rod. However, two constables, who were accompanying the police officer, nabbed them.
The arrested suspects were identified as Raja Thakur alias Mukesh Chowdhari and Suresh Chowdhari.“Both were taken to Navi Mumbai for investigations,” senior inspector Rajendra Mulik of Chandannagar police station said.
The injured assistant inspector, Rahul Rakh, who is attached to the APMC police station in Navi Mumbai, lodged a complaint about the attack with the Chandannagar police on Sunday.
Mulik said Rakh and his two constables had come to Pune to nab the two suspects for their involvement in many property offences in and around Navi Mumbai.
The two suspects had particularly targeted locked houses and apartments in Navi Mumbai. The policemen laid a trap at Sainathnagar in Vadgaon Sheri area to nab the suspects after receiving a tip-off about their whereabouts.
When they arrived, the policemen pounced on them. However, Mukesh Chowdhari bit the arm of a policeman and assaulted Rakh on his hand with an iron rod, which he was carrying.
The two constables, who were accompanying Rakh, overpowered him. “Rakh’s hands were swollen at the time. The police team returned to Navi Mumbai with the suspects and Rakh’s medical examination showed that he had a fracture in one of his hands,” Mulik said.
Police filed a fresh complaint against the two under the section 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 332 (Voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of the Indian Penal Code.