India, June 4 -- A group of unidentified passengers in two cars allegedly thrashed staff of the toll plaza at Bhojpur late Monday night to go past the barriers without paying toll on the Meerut-Ghaziabad stretch of the Delhi Meerut Expressway.

In his police complaint, toll in-charge Ankit Kumar stated that a car bearing Delhi registration number arrived at the toll around 10.30pm on Monday and broke the boom barrier to go past without paying the toll.

"He (the driver of the Delhi registered car) was stopped at some distance by the toll staff. In between, he called up his known people who arrived in another car with a registration number of Ghaziabad. They beat up toll staff and also insulted them verbally, besides issuing them threats. ...