Hyderabad, July 3 -- A traffic constable with the Cyberabad Police has been accused of hurling communal abuse at a Muslim woman and her teenage son during a dispute over a parked motorcycle in Gachibowli, in an incident that has triggered anger among sections of the city's minority community after a video of the exchange began circulating on social media.

The incident took place around noon on Thursday, July 2, outside a BP petrol station opposite the IKEA exit gate on the Gachibowli-Raidurg stretch, according to a written complaint filed by Mohammed Sameer, whose wife and son were at the receiving end of the alleged abuse.

In his complaint addressed to the Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Cyberabad, Sameer said his wife and son ...