Mumbai: A day after a traffic police constable was suspended after he allegedly towed a car with a woman sitting inside it and breastfeeding her infant child on SV Road in Malad on Friday, locals who witnessed the incident have said the woman deliberately sat inside the car when it was being prepared for towing.
Shashank Rane, the constable, was placed under suspension after a video of the incident went viral.
The owner of a pan bidi shop that is located at the spot where the incident happened, said, “We were doing our work when I saw that woman run towards the car and sit in it. She was yelling at the traffic cop.” The shop owner, who did not want to be named, added, “The constable explained to her for a few minutes but later when she said she was not going to get out of the car, the police started towing the car, while the woman’s husband gave her the child and closed the door.”
Another eyewitness, wine shop owner Bharat Soni, said, “I was watching the scene… suddenly this woman sat in the car and started arguing. The police asked them to come to the police station and complete the formalities, but she was not ready to get out of the car, and then took her child inside.”
