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The Sadashivanagar Traffic Police connected Saturday arrested a 30-year-old ambulance operator for allegedly misusing a siren to get escaped transition for idiosyncratic work.
The accused, Mohan Kumar, a nonmigratory of Banashankari III Stage and worker of a backstage hospital, was allegedly driving the ambulance successful a rash mode with the siren connected on the New BEL Road portion heading towards the Sadashivanagar Police Station.
Police unit connected work grew suspicious and intercepted the ambulance. Upon inspection, they recovered that determination was nary diligent wrong the vehicle. During questioning, Kumar claimed that helium was rushing to prime up a sick patient. However, the assertion was aboriginal verified and recovered to beryllium false, the constabulary said. On inquiry, it was recovered that helium was heading location for idiosyncratic work.
Taking beardown objection to the misuse of exigency facilities, the constabulary seized the ambulance and arrested the driver. A lawsuit has been registered against him nether Section 285 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for causing information and obstruction connected a nationalist road.
The constabulary person besides seized the driver’s licence and forwarded it to the Transport Department, recommending for suspension.
“This is the 2nd specified lawsuit booked by us, and it should service arsenic a acquisition to others misusing exigency provisions,” a elder constabulary serviceman said, adding that immoderate drivers misuse sirens and apical lights, particularly astatine night, to hoodwink postulation personnel.
