Pune: A 48-year-old drunk manager of a private firm allegedly abused and slapped a police constable after she did not get a lighter from the latter to light a cigarette in the Koregaon Park area early on Sunday, and gave a misleading address to the officers after she was detained.The accused allegedly became aggressive after the woman constable told her that she did not have a lighter around 12.30am in Lane No. 7 of Koregaon Park. The woman constable, Yayati Bamane (30), is posted at the Koregaon Park police station. She lodged a complaint against the woman, a resident of Hadapsar, for allegedly abusing and slapping her.Senior inspector Vijayraj Doke of the Koregaon Park police station said a police team detained the woman and took her for a medical examination. “The woman’s preliminary medical test report came positive for alcohol. She was released later,” he said.Police discovered on Monday that the woman had provided a misleading residential address to the officers. “She had also switched off her cellphone. We are trying to locate her to record her statement,” senior police inspector Doke said.According to police, constable Bamane was on night patrol duty when the incident occurred. She was sitting inside a patrol van parked by the roadside because of a traffic jam in the Koregaon Park area in the early hours of Sunday.“The drunk woman walked up to the police van and demanded a lighter from constable Bamane to light a cigarette. When Bamane told the woman that she did not have one, the latter was enraged. She abused the constable and then slapped the latter,” Doke said.
