Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh): An intoxicated youth created a ruckus in the middle of the road in Jabalpur on Tuesday. He took off his shirt and laid down on busy road, crawled in front of moving vehicles, making it difficult for the commuters and drivers.
This dramatic incident unfolded in Jabalpur district's Patan police station area where a youth, resident of Kundam police station area, had come to Patan’s Chaudhary Mohalla to attend a wedding.
According to the eyewitnesses, intoxicated with alcohol, the youth began behaving in an uncontrollable manner. He started rolling on the roads in semi-nude condition and was lying there for hours, jumped in front of moving vehicles to stop them.
“He kept stopping buses and cars, abusing drivers, and dancing in the middle of the road. Nobody could persuade him to leave,” a local resident said. His act caused a long stretch of traffic jam on Patan Shahpura road and the commuters started recording his act.
The drunkard reportedly stopped a moving bus for a long time due to which the passengers and the bus driver had to face a lot of inconvenience.
The situation remained dramatic until the cops intervened. Despite repeated appeals, the drunkard refused to leaves and the residents informed the police. A team from Patan police station reached the spot and tried to calm the youth and after a lot of effort the youth was brought under control.
According to Additional Superintendent of Police Suryakant Sharma said "The youth is a resident of Kundam area and had come to Patan to attend a relative's marriage function. After drinking alcohol, he started creating a ruckus on the roads."
The police took him to Patan Hospital for first aid where he was examined. After medical examination, the relatives of the youth were informed and he was handed over to them.
