South Delhi’s Vasant Vihar witnessed some dramatic scenes on Sunday morning after an inebriated 35-year-old woman attacked police personnel who were trying to prevent her from creating a ruckus.
The woman slapped a female constable and also bit a Sub-Inspector, the police said.
Part of the action was captured on a mobile camera and the footage shows the woman attacking the policewoman outside the police station.
The woman was brought to the police station around 5.15 a.m. by an auto-rickshaw driver, who had a payment dispute with her. “The auto driver, whom she had hired on her way back to her Munirka residence, said she had argued with and hit him,” said a police officer.
As they reached Munirka, the driver was faced with another challenge — her refusal to pay up or get down. Thus, he said, he was left with no choice but to bring her to the police station.
The police station staff too got a taste of her unruly behaviour. The inebriated woman got down from the auto rickshaw, but kept screaming and abusing the driver and the others, said the officer.
“First a woman constable who came to intervene was hit and then another who approached was slapped. She also bit a Sub-Inspector who stepped in. Amid all this, someone took a mobile phone and started filming. She noticed this and responded by accusing the policepersons of sexually abusing her,” said a senior police officer.
In the melee, the driver who brought her at the police station drove away.
Sensing that she was drunk, the cops tried to take her for medical examination. She protested by lying on the ground and refusing to move, an action she repeated at the Safdarjung Hospital later. “We have booked her under Sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) and 183 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions) of the IPC and will arrest her,” said the officer.
