A policeman suffered injuries after a rickshaw driver allegedly attacked him with a knife at Bhiwandi in Maharashtra's Thane district, following which the accused was arrested, an official said on Thursday. The incident occurred during the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, and the accused identified as Umer Munir Shaikh, 53, is a habitual offender, he said, adding that the injured policeman was undergoing treatment at a hospital. "A police team had spotted a suspicious rickshaw between Vadpe and Sonale villages during the night patrolling.

The police chased the vehicle and stopped it near a village. When the police personnel confronted its driver, he suddenly attacked police naik Ranjit Palve with a knife on his head," inspector Datta Borate of Bhiwandi taluka police station said. However, another policemen pinned down the driver and later arrested him, he said.