Mira-Bhayander traffic cops stop auto drivers, burn their headphones

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In a special campaign conducted by the Mira-Bhayandar traffic police on Friday, more than 250 auto-rickshaw drivers were caught while allegedly talking on the mobile using headphones. The cops made the erring auto drivers remove their headphones and hand it to them only for them to burn the bunch at a junction near the auto stand, in front of the passengers and passerby.

Senior police inspector Anil Pawar of Mira-Bhayander traffic division said that the Mira Bhayander traffic division police started this initiative where on-duty traffic constables took action by taking away the headphones of erring auto drivers and burnt it at the junction.

Recently, the police and the traffic police received many complaints from passengers alleging that auto-rickshaw drivers ply them while talking on mobile using a headphone without realising where the passengers are headed to and what are they were saying them. The passengers also alleged that the drivers do not take them to their destinations and take them to a different place. They also mentioned in their complaint that the auto-rickshaw drivers do not listen because to headphones in their ears, due to which they have to nudge them to ask him to stop the auto. The passengers have also alleged that the matter has led to heated arguments, that got escalated to fights between them and the drivers.

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