A traffic police chief was suspended from his duties because of an impingement to a newspaper office Wednesday in Taizhou City of eastern China's Zhejiang Province, local police said on Saturday.

Li Xiaoguo, head of the Jiaojiang Traffic Police Detachment under Taizhou Public Security Bureau, was told to halt work and make a self-criticism for his assault on a veteran newsman, according to Wu Yuqing, a senior police officer who had handled the case.

A report entitled "Is Fee Required to Pay for Electric Bike's Registration?" was carried Wednesday by Taizhou Evening News, which is affiliated to local Taizhou Daily, to solicits opinions of locals and give an explanation by another traffic cop pertaining to the charge.

"The report was based on interviews with Taizhou CPC commission for discipline inspection and the city's complaint-receiving center," said Lu Weibo, a reporter of the evening news.

However, Li Xiaoguo rushed to the newspaper office along with his two peers, demanding a "correction" to the report and a penalty to the reporter, said Wu Xianghu, deputy editor of the newspaper.

"After being rejected, Li pointed his fingers at me and cursed me, and hit my head hard with his handbag," Wu said. "So we fell together by the ears."

Then, Li whistled up more policemen, who later raised Wu up and moved him violently from the fifth floor of the office into a police wagon.

Wu, a liver cancer patient whose liver had been transplanted two years ago, got a number of injuries on his body and suffered the inconsistency of faeces from Li and his peers' assault.

Source: Xinhua