The arrested teachers with cops
The arrested men — Manmohan Behera, Nitish Kumar Sahu and Subhajit Chakraborty — were allegedly inebriated, cops said.Police said Behera and Sahu are from Jharkhand, while Chakraborty is from Durgapur, Raiganj, in North Dinajpur. When our officers tried to intervene, the men allegedly turned on one of our sergeants,” said a senior officer of Bidhannagar City Police. They were produced in a Barasat court and remanded in judicial custody, cops said.
The trio allegedly attacked the officer with a helmet and thrashed him following an altercation with an app-cab driver. The trio was riding a bike along the wrong flank and had dashed against the app cab. All three have been staying in New Town for work and are employed as teachers at a private coaching institution that prepares students for competitive exams. “The trio was riding a bike on the wrong side of the road and collided with an app cab parked near the No’para traffic signal, triggering an altercation with the cab driver. Officers from Eco Park Police Station reached the spot after being alerted and arrested the three accused.
Kolkata: Three teachers of a private coaching centre were arrested for allegedly assaulting an on-duty traffic cop on a stretch between City Centre II and Akankha crossing in New Town on Wednesday night.