Bengaluru: High drama prevailed near Prashanti Ayurveda Hospital near West of Chord Road after a 25-year-old inebriated man, claiming to be a son of Kannada Sangha leader and running a vernacular press, refused to undergo breathalyzer test for drunken driving and manhandled and pushed cops on duty in Rajajinagar traffic police station limits on Tuesday night.
Accused M.P. Hariprasad, who claimed to be a real estate businessman, was arrested by Rajajajinagar police for allegedly misbehaving with the traffic inspector K.V. Sridhar attached to Rajajinagar traffic police and his team.
According to the police, the incident took place around 10.45 pm while Sridhar along with his staff were conducting checks for drunken driving. Police stopped Hariprasad and asked him to undergo the test, but he refused to comply and started arguing and threatening the police.
Sridhar later told this newspaper, “We asked him to undergo a breathalyzer test to which he objected and began misbehaving with my team. When I intervened and asked him to behave and cooperate with the police, he threatened us stating that ‘You wait and watch what I do to you in the morning. You don’t know me. I run a vernacular press and a I am son of prominent Kannada Sangha leader.”
Rajajinagar police were alerted after Hariprasad refused to undergo the breath analyzer test for over one-and-a-half hour, which led to his arrest, the police added. Rajajinagar police have registered a case.
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