'Won't allow cops to violate rules'

JT. CP (traffic) Satyendra Garg spotted au00a0 police car with tinted glasses and fancy number plate on Monday. He confiscated the driver's licence

If you have a grouse against the men in uniform for turning a blind eye to violations by influential people and pulling up the aam aadmi on trivial issues, then Satyendra Garg wants to change your point of view. The Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) made an example out of the son of a retired police officer on Monday, making the point that no one is above the law.


Get the message? A webshot of the facebook page of the Joint
Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Satyendra Garg. Pic/Mid Day

Garg was going towards Burari to inspect the arrangements at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) plenary session when he noticed a car with tinted glasses and a fancy number plate with Delhi police logos on the rear and front. Garg hailed the driver who stopped his car.

Common malaise
Garg questioned the man behind the wheels who initially tried to bluff and posed as a cop. But realising the gravity of the situation, he started speaking the truth.

"His first response was that his father is an inspector in Delhi police. When questioned further he said that his father had retired recently. I then asked him about the tinted glasses on his car and he assured me he will immediately get the films removed.

There was no explanation for the defective number plate and the police logo. He is being prosecuted for all offences but what worries me is the malaise where rules are violated without compunction," said Garg.

To send out a strong message to one and all, Garg posted his experience on the famous Delhi Traffic police wall on Facebook.

"It is now nearly one year since I have been in the traffic police. And day by day I am getting convinced that we as citizens and particularly men in authority and their relatives feel that we are above the law and can violate the country's rules with impunity and there is nobody who can check us. It is a sad reflection on the state of our society.

Today, on the way to Burari, I noticed a vehicle with tinted glasses. The number plate of the vehicle was defective; it was carrying the police sign to throw weight on law enforcers. I got down, hauled up the driver and took his licence."

Rules meant to be broken?
"The society which is not self-regulated does not have a bright future and we are certainly not a self-regulated society. The other day somebody posted the picture of an SUV being parked wrongly in CP and the requests of traffic officials were turned down by the driver.

I wish I was there to tow away the vehicle and I wish there were very heavy fines for wilful defiance of rules," Garg said He made it clear that everyone, even the authorities, have to follow rules. No influential person, not even Delhi police officials are bigger than the law and every violator will be prosecuted.u00a0