Duo arrested for assaulting traffic cop

A BTech student and her uncle were today arrested a day after they allegedly assaulted a traffic police home guard at Nagaram area here after he clicked their photo of driving their two-wheeler down a one-way lane, police said. Harshita and her uncle Sai Kishore were booked under section 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of IPC and under relevant sections of Prevention of Damage to Public Property (PDPP) Act, police said. They were today arrested and remanded to judicial custody, Keesara police station inspector P Guruva Reddy told PTI. TV channels flashed the footage showing the duo allegedly engaged in argument with the traffic home guard Venkatesh Yadav and pushing him yesterday after he clicked them driving the two-wheeler on a wrong direction (one-way). The girl and her uncle argued with the traffic cop and allegedly assaulted him, police earlier said .