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Iranian women do a Tyson on cop

Duo booked after they attacked journalists.

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Two Iranian women, who were driving when drunk, allegedly did a Mike Tyson on a traffic sub-inspector and a journalist who sustained severe bite injuries as a routine drunken-driving check on Cubbon Road on Wednesday night went awry, causing a traffic jam.

The incident has raised questions on whether female constables should be appointed to check women drivers for drunken driving.
The two have been booked under various Indian Penal Code sections, and fear more severe punishment in Iran if sent back.
Shivajinagar traffic sub-inspector Rao Ganesh J and the journalist were given anti-rabies injections due to the bites.

The drama unfolded at 11.30pm when the traffic police stopped the Maruti Suzuki Alto driven by Asar Fajeli (28) with Fatima Mohamid (26) in the rear seat.

Their breath tests revealed that Asar had 59mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood, while Fatima had 89mg. The permissible limit is 30mg.
Several passers-by were witness to Fatima abusing, assaulting and biting the cop. A mob that gathered to save Ganesh pelted stones at the women’s vehicle and threatened to attack them.
The police took the Iranian women to Commercial Street police station at about 1.30am.

Fatima and Asar allegedly pounced on TV journalists who had arrived there and bit the finger of one of them. A video camera was reportedly broken in the melee.

Asar, who is from Tehran, and Fatima, from Mushad, showed injury marks on their hands and legs and instead alleged that the police had assaulted them.

The police have seized their passports and travel documents, and informed the Iranian embassy in Delhi and the consulate in Hyderabad.

The two have been remanded in judicial custody for two days.

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