23 April,2010 08:30 AM IST | | Madhusudan Maney
Indiranagar cops arrest retired army man after he allegedly brandished licensed pistol at mobile phone showroom staff and abused them
Dr (Brig) Ashok M Chacko (Retd) (65) landed at the Indiranagar police station lockup yesterday after he allegedly shoved the barrel of his licensed pistol into the mouth of a terrified mobile phone salesman.
Chacko, who had stopped at a mobile phone showroom on CMH Road on his way to a meeting at a reputed hospital, allegedly brandished his gun at the staff after they asked him to pay for the three mobile phones worth Rs 4,000 each that he was leaving the shop with.
Dr Chacko, reportedly a surgeon, lives at the Defence Colony in Indiranagar. "When I asked him to pay up he whipped my colleague Raghu, manager Bharath Gowda and me with his stick," said Afroz Pasha, a salesman at the mobile shop.
A few moments later, Chacko reportedly pulled out his pistol and brandished it at Gowda, Afroz and Raghu. As Chacko left the shop in a huff he swore at the crowd that had gathered outside the shop and even brandished his pistol at them.
Before the police reached the spot, some members of the crowd had assaulted Chacko and damaged the car he had hired.
"A month back, he asked me to deliver a phone to his house. I did so, and a few days later he called me up once again and asked me to show the operations.
When I reached his house he did not let me leave for several hours. He asked me to get some food for him and even asked me to help him wear clothes.
When I refused, he pointed his pistol at me. I got a little scared and quietly did all he asked me to."
| Dr (Brig) Ashok M Chacko (Retd) abusing cops at Indiranagar police station. |
