Locals had to fight with the traffic constables in Malad to ensure that accident victim Salauddin Shaikh reached a hospital at the earliest

Don't hesitate to get involved and help an accident victim, the country's top court has said. But some traffic constables are a law unto themselves, as citizens found out on Tuesday, when locals in Malad tried to take a youth bleeding on the road to hospital. They were threatened and told not to interfere by the constables there, who just coolly stood watching, waiting for the police van.