Youth held for ‘assaulting’ bus driver in Salem

A 25-year-old younker was arrested for allegedly assaulting a authorities autobus operator connected Wednesday. According to police, C. Thangadurai (53), a authorities autobus operator and a resident of Karumapuram adjacent Karipatti, was driving a autobus heading to Salem Old Bus Stand from Vazhapadi connected Wednesday. At the railway gross adjacent Ammapet, 2 younker were engaged in a verbal duel by blocking the traffic.

Thangaduri honked the horn, asking them to determination distant from the road. Irked implicit this, 1 of the youth, identified arsenic S. Nandhakumar of Udaiyapatti, allegedly attacked Thangadurai, who sustained injuries to his near receptor and eye. The Ammapet constabulary registered a lawsuit and arrested Nandhakumar, who was remanded.