An assistant vice-president of a company waiting for an app cab on the way home from work has said she was slapped by a policeman on Park Street when she patted him on the shoulder to tell him that the car he was shooing away was the one she had booked.

The woman, who works with a global advisory and broking solutions company, has filed a complaint at Park Street police station.

The FIR does not name the policeman as his jacket had covered his nametag. But a colleague of the woman had taken on a mobile the picture of the policeman, which has been given to the police.

The alleged incident took place in front of pedestrians and motorists who were passing by around 7.35pm on Wednesday.

Another woman who said she was passing by told The Telegraph: “I saw the officer slap her. Initially, I thought it was an accident and the cop would apologise immediately. But instead of any apologies, he kept on saying to the woman, ‘aapni ekta police-er gaye hath dite paren na (you cannot touch a policeman). The woman appeared to be in deep shock. The policeman continued to be rude and aggressive.”

The woman who was allegedly slapped said she “felt sick” after the assault and found it difficult to walk even a few hundred meters to Park Street police station. One of her colleagues who was with her arranged for a car to take her to the police station.

The woman said she and her colleagues had stepped out of their office in Apeejay House and were waiting for the car when the alleged incident happened.

“As the Uber was coming through Russell Street, we moved a little ahead towards Olypub. As the car appeared and I tried to reach for it, a police officer who was posted there used his lathi to prevent the Uber from stopping there. I was right there trying to tell the policeman that it was my car and I would board it but he would not listen. In a desperate motion to draw the attention of the cop, I patted his shoulder. He turned the very next moment and slapped me,” she said later in the evening.

The woman, who knew a senior officer in Lalbazar, called him up and narrated the incident. Then she started for the police station, which was about 400 metres away. However, she failed to walk after a few steps.

“Everything around me blurred. I still could not believe I had been subjected to such violence for no fault of mine. One of my colleagues who was with me arranged for a car that dropped me at the police station,” she said.

Her letter of complaint was accepted and a formal case has been started.

Deputy commissioner (south) Meeraj Khalid said: “We are inquiring into the matter.”