A scuffle broke out between a couple and a woman toll operator at Kherki Daula toll plaza on Friday over payment.
The police took both the women into preventive arrest but later let them off.
The couple had entered the lane meant for vehicles with tags without realising that their car’s tag had expired. When toll operator Soni Kumari asked them to pay the toll in cash, the couple requested her to check the tag balance. This led to an altercation between the two parties. “Ms. Kumari made an unsavoury remark against the woman in the car and the at which the latter entered into a scuffle with her,” said SHO Kherki Daula Sandeep Kumar, adding that an action was initiated. Toll manager Jitender Kumar said in his complaint that the couple beat up Ms. Kumari and other toll staff — Santoshi and Manisha with slippers when the two intervened.
In another incident, toll employee Rakesh Kumar was hit by a minibus driver on Thursday around 7 p.m. when he tried to prevent the vehicle from entering a lane at the plaza from the wrong side. The driver allegedly ran him over with the vehicle before fleeing the scene. “It was an attempt to run over the staff to avoid paying the toll. Such incidents have become a routine at the toll,” said Rajendra Singh Bhati, Project Head, Skylark, the company operating the toll. The case is being investigated, the police said.
The police said the statement of the victim was being recorded to know the exact sequence of events.
