Vadodara: Makarpura police arrested two men for allegedly threatening traffic police personnel, obstructing them from performing their duty and snatching a constable’s mobile phone after a dumper was stopped for violating no-entry restrictions in the Tarsali area.The incident took place on Oct 21 around 8.30am, when assistant sub-inspector ASI) A S Chaudhary and Lok Rakshak Ashwinkumar Khushaljibhai, attached to the city traffic police’s eastern division, were checking vehicles near Tarsali checkpost. They stopped a dumper that had entered the city from beneath Tarsali bridge.When the driver, identified as Ramesh Rawat (41), failed to produce a valid pass or permit to enter the city, the personnel informed him that the vehicle would be detained for violating the police commissioner’s no-entry notification.Rawat then called his acquaintance, Mehul Bharwad (31), who arrived at the spot in an SUV. Bharwad allegedly argued with the police personnel, claiming that nobody could impound his vehicle. He then instructed his driver to run the vehicle over the policemen if they stopped it, and threatened to deal with them.When Ashwinkumar attempted to photograph the incident on his mobile phone, Bharwad snatched the device and threw it to the ground before fleeing the spot in his vehicle.Rawat, a resident of Morlipura village in Waghodia taluka, and Bharwad, a resident of Nehru Chacha Society near Ajwa Road in Vadodara, surrendered to the police.
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