Ever since its implementation, the new Motor Vehicles Act has been in the news for wrong reasons - mostly for people getting fined astronomical amounts for minor violations.

Now a Noida man has alleged that his son died of a heart attack after he was pulled over by the traffic police for an alleged violation.

According to reports, the incident took place on Sunday evening in Ghaziabad when the 35-year-old Gaurav Sharma who worked at a software company was driving his car which also had his parents.

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His father Moolchand Sharma alleged that the traffic cops intercepted their Ritz car or checking near the CISF Cut.

He alleged that despite the fact that all of them wearing seat belts and the car wasn't overspending, the cops asked his son to stop and banged the bonnet of the car with his batton.

Sharma said that his son got out of the car and collapsed to the ground immediately. He also alleged that the cops instead of helping them fled the scene after Gaurav collapsed.

It was passerby who later came to their help and took the unconscious Gaurav to the Fortis Hospital in Sector 62 where the staff checked his pulse in the car itself and said he had died.

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"There has to be a way for anything. It is fine that traffic rules have been changed. One (police) should be polite and ask somebody to pull their vehicle over for inspection. It wasn't a case of rash driving or anything. There were two elderly people sitting inside the car, yet they hit the car with batons... This is no way of checking. I don't think there's any rule that allows it," the father said.

"I would not have to see this day had the traffic policemen spoken softly. I have lost my young son, my five-year-old granddaughter has lost her father," he added.

The family also said that Gaurav did not have a history of heart illness but admitted that he was diabetic.

Meanwhile, the Noida police has distanced itself from the incident and it happened in Indirapuram.