Thane, Aug 21 A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has sentenced two brothers to two months' simple imprisonment for assaulting a traffic police constable during a vehicle seizure drive in 2019.
Additional Sessions Judge D B Mane convicted the accused, Afnan Afak Qureshi (25), and his brother, Tamshil (29), under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 each on the duo.
According to the prosecution, the incident occurred on August 19, 2019, when traffic constable Angad Murlidhar Munde impounded motorcycles belonging to underage riders in Tanwar Nagar in Mumbra.
When the vehicles were brought to the Mumbra Traffic Branch, an argument ensued as the accused demanded their immediate release without paying fines.
The accused grabbed the constable, dragged him to a road divider, and knocked him down, injuring him, they said.
The court noted that a video of the incident captured on a mobile phone clearly established the sequence of events.
The electronic evidence clearly supported and corroborated the oral evidence of the informant and eyewitnesses, it said.
The court acquitted the co-accused, Shamsuddin Bangi and Khairunissa Shaikh, for lack of specific overt acts.
