A professor from ITS College was thrashed and dragged by a car for over a kilometre when he tried to stop the vehicle moving in the wrong direction and advised the driver to obey traffic rules.
The victim, Kuldeep Malik, from Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, along with his other team members runs a traffic awareness campaign in Greater Noida under which any person found flouting the traffic rules are stopped and advised.
"On Wednesday morning around 6:30 am, I was with my team members near Beta-2 roundabout. As there is a CNG pump, we found many vehicles driving back in the wrong direction of the road after getting their vehicle filled. We stopped them and advised to drive in the correct direction and obey traffic rules.
"As we stopped a Maruti Alto car with registration number UP 16 Z 2400, the young driver misbehaved with us and tried to ram the car into me. I somehow managed to jump on to the bonnet of the car and got the hold on the wipers. He dragged me to around one kilometer and also hit two vehicles who tried to stop him while I was dangling on the bonnet of the car. After a kilometer when a car tried to stop him he applied sudden brakes which made me fell on the road thus getting some injuries as well," said Malik.
He also stated that their team has been working to create traffic awareness among people for the past two months.
"Though we don't have permission to run such a campaign it doesn't mean that someone can commit a crime like this to us," added Kuldeep Malik.