VADODARA: The crime branch of the city police has traced a man who had allegedly attacked a woman police constable of the railway police with a knife. The woman police constable was attacked on Friday night when she was going on duty.
The constable Payal Gamiti, a resident of Akota Police Lines, was walking to work with a colleague Daxa Thakore on Friday night. The duo was approached from behind by a man who must have been following them.
The man held Gamiti’s hair from behind and stabbed her on the back of her thigh. Gamiti went to the SSG Hospital (SSGH) for treatment. An emergency police report was registered at SSGH and the Gotri police registered an offence on the basis of the report in the early hours on Saturday.
Gamiti has also disclosed that about six months back, the man sat in the same sharing-autorickshaw that she was commuting in.
The autorickshaw was plying on the same stretch where she was stabbed. The man had slapped her at that time and threatened her by saying that he would not spare her. He then got down from the rickshaw and ran away.
Assistant commissioner of police D S Chauhan said that the man had been identified as Vijay Rathwa. The complainant has also identified him from a picture shown to her. Cops have launched operation to nab the man.
