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Lockdown: Mumbaikars fume at cops' 'bizarre' impounding drive
Updated On: 01 July, 2020 07:22 AM IST | Mumbai | Vishal Singh, Anurag Kamble
Vehicle owners claim that police seizing vehicles even when they have valid reasons for travel
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Mumbai police personnel make enquiries with two-wheeler riders near Opera House on Tuesday. Pic/Bipin Kokate
Mumbai police's new order to not venture beyond a 2-km radius from home and impounding of vehicles that do has brought troubling times for Mumbaikars.
Bhagyesh Raut, a fashion photographer is a Jogeshwari East resident. On Sunday afternoon, Raut was going to the market near his house when policemen stopped him and confiscated his bike. When Raut asked why his bike is being seized, he was only told that he will get it back in three days. Raut was frightened by the police's sudden action. "The market is 500 metres from my house. Police did not even check my license while seizing the bike," Raut said.
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