Cop assaults bus driver, transferred

Pondicherry, Mar 9 (UNI) A constable attached to the Ariyankuppam Police Station was transferred to the Pondicherry Armed Police after he allegedly assaulted a Tamilnadu State Transport Corporation driver and his wife at Ariyankauyppam yesterday.

According to police here today, Ponvel of Ariyankuppam stopped the bus near his house to collect food from his wife causing a minor traffic jam.

Constable Venkatesan who was on mufti had an altercation with the driver and later allegedly assaulted the couple.A departmental enquiry had also been ordered against him, they added.

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