Bus Driver Gets One Month In Jail For Knocking Down Cop

Bus Driver Gets One Month In Jail For Knocking Down Cop 12 Jan 2009, 0333 hrs IST, TNN PUNE: Judicial magistrate first class Umeshchandra More on Friday sentenced state transport bus driver Ramesh Bhagyawant (51) of Navpada in Thane to one month's simple imprisonment and fined him Rs 800 for injuring traffic policemen Sakharam Salunkhe (52) at Swargate chowk in 2008. Assistant public prosecutor Ashok Khamkar said that Salunkhe was on duty at the busy chowk when the bus hit him on August 10, 2008. Salunkhe was severely injured was admitted to a private hospital for treatment. After Salunkhe regained consciousness, he registered a case against Bhagyawant under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code. Khamkar said that all five witnesses supported the prosecution's case, and the medical officer who was examined, deposed that the injuries found on the policemen were received in an accident. Khamkar asked that the maximum punishment be given to the driver because he was driving recklessly.

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