NEW DELHI: With the AAP government curtailing the powers of the traffic police to challan errant auto drivers, there has been a sudden rise in the cases of attack on cops . Two constables were assaulted by TSR drivers in separate incidents on Tuesday. Cases have been registered in both the cases.

In the first incident, a constable posted at the Sarojini Nagar police station was attacked by an auto driver when asked to remove his vehicle from a no-parking zone.

In his complaint, constable Jitender said he was on patrol duty when he found a number of autorickshaws parked outside the Babu Market main gate, which was causing a traffic jam.

When Jitender asked the drivers to remove their vehicles, one of them abused him. “He told me that the government is being run by Mr Kejriwal and I can have your uniform removed,” Jitender said. The driver then dragged the cop holding his collar and thrashed him in the middle of the road.

The constable informed the PCR and the driver, Riyaz Khan, a resident of Chhatarpur, was nabbed.

In the second incident, another traffic constable was thrashed by a TSR driver near Madhuban Chowk bus stop on Tuesday evening for asking him to stop as he was driving on the wrong side. The driver punched him on the chest and then slapped him. The cop had to be admitted to a hospital with complaints of chest pain.

