Chennai: A group of truck drivers took law unto their own hands, or that’s what they thought, until police rushed to the rescue of a 30-year-old man who was beaten up by the truck drivers, who suspected the man to be a thief. The incident happened near Madhavaram during the early hours of Tuesday when one of the drivers caught the man suspiciously entering into the driver’s cabin of a parked truck. With bloody injuries, the man swooned to the ground before police rushed to the scene on information.
Police investigations revealed that the truck drivers turned violent, as there were several incidents in the recent past wherein, mobile phones and spare parts were stolen from parked trucks in the bays in Madhavaram and Ennore.
Two weeks ago, on September 19, a mobile phone was stolen from a truck and the drivers decided to be vigil as they suspected the thief to be either one among them or a miscreant who sneaks in during the night.
Unluckily for the man, identified as Sadiq (30) from Korukkupet, he had to bear the brunt. Police sources said Sadiq had come to visit his friend, Chandrasekar, a truck driver. He was on his way home when he mistook a man sleeping inside a truck to be his friend and ventured into it. However, the truck driver assumed the stranger to be a thief and alerted other truck drivers who ganged up and thrashed him. One of the truck drivers alerted the cops meanwhile.
“Preliminary investigations suggested that he is not a thief. We have checked if he has any previous cases against him and there were none,” a police officer said. Further investigations are on.
