Attack on official: Thane civic guards get training in self-defence

Kalpita Pimple after the surgery to reattach her fingers. She was asking illegal hawkers in Kasarvadavali to clear the area when she was attacked

A few days after a senior woman official was left severely injured in an attack by a hawker, security guards of Thane Municipal Corporation were on Saturday given training in self-defence.

The daylong session was organised by a Mumbra-based martial arts institute and was attended, among others, by TMC chief security officer Machindra Thorve.

Assistant Municipal Commissioner Kalpita Pimple and her bodyguard were attacked by a knife-wielding hawker on August 30 in Kasarvadavli junction, resulting in three fingers of the woman official getting severed.

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