Breaking a traffic signal wasn't enough for this 25-year-old man who went on to beat up the traffic constable who apprehending him. The Vakola police on Sunday arrested Mohammed Kaleem Sheikh for allegedly assaulting and abusing a traffic constable who confronted him for breaking the signal at Razaq junction on the Santacruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR) in Santacruz East.

While the constable chased the accused for a while, he was later detained from Chheda Nagar junction in Chembur by a beat marshal based on details shared by the control room.
With such incidents on the rise, Madhukar Pandey, joint commissioner of traffic police said that the department is set to give body cameras to its constables. Traffic constable Sanjay Vadke, attached to Kurla division, was deployed at Razaq junction along with another traffic warden on Saturday. Around 7 pm, while the signal for traffic moving towards BKC-Kurla was green, the accused, driving from Kalina towards Chembur broke the signal. When he was stopped by constable Vadke and the traffic warden and questioned, Sheikh used abusive language.