Dharamsala, May 22
The Chamba district administration has lodged a complaint against the callousness of Mohali traffic police. The administration has alleged that certain Mohali cops did not even spare the driver of vehicle carrying bodies of the victims of Khajjiar accident.
Sources said the Chamba administration had sent the bodies of tourists who died in an accident on the Khajjiar road on May 16. The bodies were sent to the native places of deceased as per the request of their kin in a vehicle (HP-73-0645) arranged by the district administration.
On May 19, the driver of the vehicle that was carrying the bodies was stopped by the Punjab police constables near the Kharar bus stand.
The driver said he showed the cops special permission from the Chamba administration to carry the bodies to Delhi. However, despite being shown all the valid documents the Punjab police constables allegedly challaned him and demanded a bribe of Rs 9,000.
When the driver expressed helplessness to meet the demand of constables, the traffic cops allegedly trashed him and took Rs 2,000 from him.
Chamba SDM Rohit Rathaur admitted that the driver of the vehicle carrying bodies was thrashed by the Punjab traffic cops.
He said, “I tried to contact the Mohali SSP, GPS Bhullar, but in vain. I then contacted the DSP traffic, Mann, who assured action against the guilty cops. The vehicle driver had noted down the belt numbers of cops who thrashed him, which had been forwarded to the DSP traffic, he added.
Meanwhile, the Chamba district administration yesterday registered a complaint into the matter in the office of the Chamba SDM. Officials said they would initiate requisite action into the matter on their own level.
The Mohali SSP said on preliminary complaint from the Chamba SDM on phone we had removed the accused traffic cops from duty and posted them to police lines. However, the Chamba administration and the accused driver had not lodged any formal complaint. Since a senior district administration official of Chamba had personally complained regarding the matter we would like to get to the bottom of the incident. In case a formal complaint was lodged by the Chamba administration we would take further action into the matter, he added.
The Chamba SDM said he had filed an online police complaint under his name within an hour of the incident.
He said, “We will also write to the Mohali Deputy Commissioner regarding the matter”.
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