Ravi Kumar was returning home on his motorcycle without a helmet when the traffic police signalled him to stop on Thursday.

“I tried to run away when a policeman stopped my way. He took out the keys of my vehicle and asked me to come with him. In the meantime, another cop came running from the direction of the checkpost and started hitting me with his baton. One blow hit my eye and I started bleeding profusely,” Ravi said.

The traffic officers then rushed him to Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32.

Kuldeep Kaur, mother of Ravi said: “When we reached the hospital, Ravi was lying on a stretcher and crying in pain. The doctor did not attend him for more than three hours. We were left with no choice but to take him to the Dhanwantry Ayurvedic College later.”

Ravi said he had surrendered before the policeman for not adhering to the rules, but they started beating him for no reason.

His mother, a peon at the Chandigarh Air Force Station, alleged that the traffic officers registered a case against her son for raising voice against their highhandedness.

Station House Officer Inspector, Bhupinder Singh, said Ravi tried to run away by breaking the checkpost after hitting a traffic personnel. “They then tried to catch him and in the process, Ravi was injured unintentionally,” he said.