Patna : In a blatant display of khaki power and disrespect to women, a police constable roughed up and slapped a female family member of a high-profileminister in full public view while she was alighting from her car in front of a shopping mall on Sunday.

A shocked Surabhi, daughter-in-law of public health engineering department (PHED) minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey, said that her husband was trying to park the car at a proper place on Fraser Road around 4.30 pm when the policeman walked up to her side shouting “gaadi hataiye, CM ka movement hai (remove the car, chief minister is to pass through the area)”.

“Before completing his sentence, the cop even clutched my wrist,” she said adding she immediately raised an alarm following the objectionable behaviour of the constable. The policeman then also slapped her and before people could rush in to her rescue, he escaped from the spot, she said.

According to eyewitnesses, a mobile patrol party of Gandhi Maidan police station helped the guilty policeman escape. Later, police reached the spot. Irate people blocked the road in protest of the incident and demanded immediate arrest of the culprit. Kotwali DSP Amar Singh said that an FIR would be lodged against the policeman who misbehaved with Surabhi.

Incidentally, a number of cars are usually lined up on the busy Fraser Road but the constable was not ready to give even a single minute to enable her husband to park the car.


The CM's cavalcade was not seen on the road for the next one hour. In fact, it was diverted to some other route because of the disturbance. (TOI)