Harassment on e-challans alleged
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 26: The members of Maxi Cab and Special Taxi Operators Union, Jammu and other transport operators today held strong protest against the Traffic Police Department and JK UT Administration for harassing public transport operators and others on the issue of e-challans.
The transport/ taxi operators assembled at Transport Yard, Narwal near new Bus Stand today under the leadership of Vijay Dogra, president of the Union and held protest. They were shouting slogans against UT Administration and Traffic Police and their senior officers. They alleged that on the pretext of e-challans an open loot and plunder is going on and the public/ road users are being victimized. There is no one to intervene and stop this illegal practice.
While talking to the media-persons during protest, Dogra said that top officials in the UT Administration have given targets of e-challans to the police officers to fill the coffers of the Government and other connected with it. He said e-challans are flashed to the operators without knowing about their offence. Even the Traffic cops have hired shopkeepers and Rehariwallas to click the photo of the vehicles and forward to the Traffic police officers to meet their target. Then e-challan comes on the mobile phone of the operator, without his knowledge or offence he committed. The drivers and even public is facing harassed due to this type of atmosphere created in J&K which never happened earlier, he added.
Dogra alleged that many vehicles have been black listed even after paying paid challan amount. He said if such atmosphere of terror, loot and plunder continued Transport operators will be forced to go on strike. He said Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra is starting within few days, Union do not want to create trouble and give wrong signal to the pilgrims from outside. But if harassment from Govt side continued, they will be forced to take harsh decisions.
The Cab/ Special Union urged the Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha and Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo to urgently intervene into the matter and resolve the issue of undue harassment to the transport operators and other road users.
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