Engg student among 6 booked for scuffle with cop

A final year engineering student and five others were arrested today on the charge of attacking a 53-year old police personnel in a bus following a quarrel, police said.

Assistant Police Sub-Inspector of Salem Steel Plant station Chinnaraj was returning home after election duty in nearby Sankari when a wordy duel broke out between him and the student of an engineering college in Coimbatore over some petty issue.

Five other passengers also joined the quarrel which ended in a scuffle. The six were arrested on charge of voluntarily causing hurt, criminal intimidation and rioting, police said.