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Updated On: 03 May, 2010 09:47 AM IST | | Team MiD DAY
Auto campaign gets good response as commuters join in to catch errant drivers
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Auto campaign gets good response as commuters join in to catch errant drivers
On the first day of a widespread campaign launched by MiD DAY and Radio One along with the traffic police and the Regional Transport Office in the city, 13 autorickshaw drivers were booked at four busy locations for refusing fares and overcharging.
As our reporters fanned out across the city along with traffic police officers to book errant drivers, they found citizens noticing them and joining them in the campaign.
Passengers who came forward after learning about the campaign were eager to know if MiD DAY would give any helpline numbers for filing complaints.
Commuters said that even though they face these problems on a daily basis, they don't have an option but to bear the nuisance as they don't know how to file their complaints.
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ON the first day of the campaign itself, the reporters and traffic police had to face the ire of local political workers. The workers threatened to harm the police and even the MiD DAY team if they continued 'harassing' rickshaw drivers. In the first hour of the campaign, the reporters caught four rickshaw drivers for over-charging and refusing fare. When a driver was brought to a local traffic division for action, he called Sandip Kedari, a party worker of Republican Party of India from Alandi Road, who came to the station and threatened to "break the bones of traffic police" lest they let go off the driver.
When the reporters intervened and tried to explain the driver's offence, Kedari said, "Will you hang him for this offence? I will hang you guys instead," and also threatened to call women workers from his party to 'set them right'. Jaane bhi do: The officer doesn't seem in any mood to let off the rickshaw driver. Pic/nikhil ghorpade ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT
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