Sunday, July 26, 2009

Jorhat traffic police under scanner

JORHAT, July 26: At a time when the State Government as well as the Asom police have failed to protect the lives and property of the common people, as the militant groups have been on a rampage, carrying out anti-social activities in the State but the people of Jorhat here have upped their anti against the Jorhat traffic police for some completely different reason.

Noteworthy that, the Jorhat police have been coming to the scratching criticism from the public due to its atrocities to the common people and for the failure to control law and order situation for the last couple of months. As well as the traffic police of the Chief Minister’s home district too, is under fire due to its alleged involvement in collection of fines from various quarters within the town.

According to the information, the traffic in-charge and the traffic inspector of Jorhat town along with a number of traffic constables have allegedly involved in collection of money from the vehicles running in the town both day and night by taking the advantage of traffic chaos for the last couple of months. The allegations received from various quarters said that, the traffic police, engaged their duties to control the traffic disorder have seen mostly busy to collect money by different means from private vehicles. The allegation further stated that, the traffic police of the town have failed to control the traffic chaos due to the negligence of duty and the intention of such sordid affairs which turn to a serious cause for concern for the people of the CM’s home town.

Apart from it, the traffic in-charge and the traffic inspector of the town have allegedly involved with regular collection of bribes from a number of vendors and private vehicle stands and siphoned off the huge amount of money by keeping the district administration in dark. However, although the traffic police officials have used to take out some drives in a short interval of time within the town area but in reality it happens to be a worthless practice as to why the instance of violation of Motor Vehicle Act are available under the nose of the Jorhat traffic police in the roads and pavements as well.

Therefore, the people of the town have failed to understand as to why the district administration of the district have allowed such alleged practices by the traffic police beyond the permissible limit and raised their eyebrows after witnessing such mysterious silence of the district administration towards these unlawful activities. SOURCE: THE SENTINEL

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