DOHA: A criminal court has sentenced a GCC citizen to six months in jail and fined him QR5,000 for assaulting a traffic officer on duty.
The convict did not attend the trial. A summon was sent to his latest address. Based on the request of public Prosecution, the court decided to continue the hearing in absentia.
According to the file of the case, the victim was working with the Traffic Department as a policeman. On the day of incident, he was on night duty when he received a call from the control room about a road accident.
The caller said a mishap had occurred in West Bay behind Laguna Mall. The officer rushed in a patrol vehicle to the site alone. When he arrived at the site, he saw the mishap in which a BMW car with diplomatic number plate had collided with a GMC pickup.
The car owner said it was not his fault and blamed the pickup. The officer approached the pickup owner (the convict) and asked him to produce driver’s licence, road permit for his pickup and get into the patrol vehicle.
The convict’s breath was smelling of liquor and he could not walk properly, said the officer. The officer then went to the car owner to take his statement for necessary formalities. When he returned to his patrol vehicle to take the convict to the department, the latter turned violent, tried to snatch papers from him and hit him on his back. The officer manage to control the situation somehow and called Al Fazaa police that arrived and took the culprit to police station. the peninsula
