Meerut, Feb. 25 -- A local court in Bareilly on Monday sentenced four individuals including three traffic cops to 10 years of imprisonment each for a life-threatening attack on senior woman officer, Kalpana Saxena, who was serving as the additional superintendent of police (ASP), traffic, at the time of the incident in 2010. Along with the prison term, the court also imposed a fine of Rs.1 lakh on each of the convicts.

The case dates to September 2, 2010, when Saxena, while on duty, was targeted while attempting to crack down on illegal extortion by traffic police personnel.

According to case details, the incident took place Natkatia intersection on Bareilly-Lucknow highway, where Saxena had received reports of traffic officers stopping...