The young man (right) arguing with Nagpur Zone II DCP Vinita S (left) at Residency Road in Sadar

Nagpur Zone II DCP Vinita S and her staff on Wednesday booked a young man for obstructing public servants from performing their duties during the third day of the COVID-19 lockdown. While the man was booked and taken to the police station, DCP Vinita S ensured that the senior citizens traveling with him in his car reach their destination ? a hospital. Police personnel themselves drove the old couple to the hospital.

DCP Vinita and her team were enforcing the COVID-19 restrictions on Residency Road in Sadar when the young man driving the car (MH 40 BJ 1125), with two senior citizens in it, was stopped by the police. After he was stopped and asked to show his documents, the man started arguing with the cops. The man questioned DCP Vinita as to why no action was taken against a woman traveling with her son in the auto-rickshaw.

The woman had been let go by the cops as she showed a hospital file she was carrying. Even after explaining why the lady in the auto-rickshaw was let go, the man still kept arguing. DCP Vinita S then asked her team member to book the man under section 186 of the IPC.

Speaking to Nation Next, DCP Vinita S said, “Normally, we seize the vehicle of the person who does not abide by the rules and obstructs us from doing our duties. But since there was an elderly couple in the car, we made sure the man was booked for not co-operating and the senior citizens were taken to the hospital. We are allowing people with medical emergencies to go to hospitals. But I want to request others to follow protocol.”