CPO throws lathi at biker who rams vehicle into car, suffers head injury
Kollam: A 22-year-old man suffered a serious head injury on Thursday after a civil police officer (CPO) threw a lathi at him when he allegedly refused to stop his motorcycle during a vehicle checking. Kollam resident Siddique lost control of his motorcycle after being hit by the lathi and rammed it into a car.
The CPO, Chandramohan, was suspended immediately after the incident and two other officers involved in the vehicle checking were transferred.
Kerala DGP Loknath Behra instructed the Kollam superintendent of police to register a criminal case against the police official who threw the lathi at Siddique.
"I have instructed the district police chief to register a criminal case against the accused. If any such case comes up, the district police chiefs will be held responsible," Behra told reporters at Thiruvananthapuram.
Locals blocked the traffic for a few hours on the Parippally-Madathara Road, protesting against the incident. Siddique's father told reporters that the police took his son to the nearby taluk hospital and left him there.
"The hospital authorities informed me about the incident," he said. The Kerala High Court recently came down heavily on the manner in which the police resorted to checking vehicles on busy roads. The DGP had also issued guidelines to be followed while conducting vehicle checks.
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J&K: One dead, seven hospitalised after consuming wild vegetable in Rajouri
Rajouri/Jammu (PTI): One person died while seven others, mostly children, were hospitalised after allegedly consuming a wild vegetable in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, officials said on Saturday.
The incident was reported from Mohra village in the Kotranka subdivision, where members of two families consumed a wild vegetable following which they started showing symptoms of food poisoning on Friday evening, they said.
The affected persons were initially shifted to the Community Health Centre in Kandi and later referred to the Government Medical College Hospital Rajouri for specialised treatment.
Officials said an elderly man, identified as Mohammad Hussain (60), died during treatment, while seven other members of the two families are undergoing treatment at the hospital.
“Prima facie, it is a case of food poisoning, but the matter is still under investigation,” a doctor said.
Officials said an investigation into the incident has been initiated to determine the exact cause of the poisoning.
