Delhi youth booked for spitting near policeman

New Delhi, April 13 : Delhi Police have booked a city resident on the charge of spitting near a policeman deployed on lockdown duty in the national capital.

Police said the incident occurred in the Lahori Gate area of north Delhi on April 12 evening when an ASI and a couple of policemen were on duty at a checkpoint in the area.

A young man seen loitering nearby was asked to stop, but he spit near a policeman and ran away into a bylane nearby.

Police have registered a case under the Epidemic Diseases Act and other law provisions and launched a manhunt for the accused.



--IANS

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Source: IANS