Inebriated doctor escapes with police patrol vehicle, dashes it against autorickshaw

Inebriated doctor escapes with police patrol vehicle, dashes it against autorickshaw

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:29.12.2020

This doctor gave the Chennai police a taste of their own medicine. Stopped and sent home in an autorickshaw for driving drunk, he came back after a while and drove away the cops’ vehicle when they refused to return his car. He then dashed the police jeep against an autorickshaw at Kilpauk, injuring three people.

Police said Dr S Muthu Ganesh, 31, a resident of Arakonam who practices at a private hospital in Kundrathur, was caught driving drunk at 1.30 am on Monday on Harrington road. He was returning from a friend’s house when the police stopped him.

Initially he refused to blow into the breathalyzer and tried to convince the cops to let him go by flashing his identity card. However, the police refused to budge and made him blow into the breathalyzer. Since he tested drunk, the police asked him to park his car by the road and sent him off in an autorickshaw.

Police said the doctor turned up at the Ega signal on Poonamallee high road around 3.30am and asked them to return his car, saying he would not go home without it. The traffic cops, who were supervising road marking work on Poonamallee High Road, told him he could collect his car in the morning after paying a fine.

The doctor then started calling someone on his phone and police went back to their work. But the doctor then got into their patrol vehicle and drove away. One of the sub-inspectors flagged down a biker and gave chase.

The doctor, meanwhile, dashed against an autorickshaw near the Gengu Reddy subway, a few minutes away. The SI reached the scene and apprehended Muthu Ganesh.

The injured were taken to the Government Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital and the doctor was sent to Puzhal prison by a city court.

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