PESHAWAR – The citizen who lost his cool and beat up a traffic official publicly has been arrested after Khyber Pakhtunkhwa IGP Salahuddin Mehsud took notice of the matter.
The accused, who was identified as Riaz Ali and works as an assistant professor at a government college, insulted and tortured a traffic warden Abdul Ghafoor.
Ghafoor told the police that Ali hit him with his car and later beat him; he had only signaled Ali to stop for two minutes over which he manhandled him.
A video of Ali beating the traffic warden went viral on social media, following which KP IGP took notice ordering Capital City Police Officer Qazir Jameel-ur-Rehman to immediately arrest the accused.
The Cantonment police took action and arrested Ali, who, according to officials, is the son of a retired sub-inspector and teaches at Government Degree College Akbarpura.
Further investigations are underway.
