Traffic cop books boss for flouting traffic rule

HYDERABAD: It was a tough time for a traffic inspector to issue a challan to his boss- an assistant commissioner of police after his vehicle violated traffic norms. However, he was duty-bound and finally issued a challan to his boss. Mirchowk traffic inspector Shaik Meera Shareef  found his boss assistant commissioner of police (Traffic), T Pullinder Reddy’s vehicle parked in a wrong place at Nayapul on Thursday. As per the special drive to crack the whip on errant police and government vehicles, the inspector duly issued a challan to the ACP and collected the fine. It is reported that Pullinder Reddy vented his anger on the inspector. After paying off the challan amount, he reportedly tore away the challan and threw it on the inspector’s face. But Shaik Meera Shareef was not fazed by the incident and issued another two challans, one to a traffic home guard and another to a government vehicle belonging to a higher official of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, as the vehicle was going in the wrong direction. As many as 15 drivers of police vehicles were booked by traffic police for violating rules. The first day of the drive was specially focused on errant police vehicles. “We issued challans to at least 15 drivers of police vehicles on the first day of the special drive. If any vehicle, police or civil is found flouting traffic rules, traffic inspectors would not hesitate to issue a challan and collect the fine,” said CV Anand, additional commissioner of police (Traffic).  Taking serious note of complaints about police vehicles flouting traffic norms, Anand has issued notices to all officials in the police department to give instructions to their drivers to strictly follow traffic rules. “Cases of police vehicles flouting traffic rules have gone down as we issued notices to all officials three days before the drive began. Usually, as many as 20 to 30 cases reported every day,” Anand added. He said they issued challans for wrong side driving, stop line violation, signal jumping, wrong parking, triple riding, using a mobile while driving and irregular number plates. Of these, at least five cases were committed by traffic police personnel themselves. Now, citizens can also capture errant police vehicles and update photos on the Facebook page of Hyderabad Traffic Police.