LAHORE: A man who was seriously injured after a policeman allegedly pushed him off of a road adjacent to an underpass succumbed to his wounds on Saturday, Geo News reported.

According to the injured man?s family, Zohaib was travelling with his friends on Tuesday when a policeman allegedly stopped the car in Lahore?s Garden Town vicinity and demanded a bribe. Upon refusal, he pushed the man off the road ? seriously injuring him in the process.

The family of the deceased man, who was then under treatment at Jinnah Hospital, made an appeal for justice to the Punjab chief minister and senior police officials.

?An investigation into the incident is under way,? SP Model Town Division Hunain Haider told Geo News on Tuesday.