| Address: | Golibar road thane |
Dear Sir,
Yesterday i was on ny way to Thane with my family when at Golibar Road at a signal, i crossed it when it just turned yellow. The traffic police caught me, and i told him that it was yellow. He showed me pictures of the evidence where my car is not clearly visible, the signal that i was crossing is not visible. He asked for my license and PUC, i gave my license and asked him to check the PUC online on his device since i couldn’t find the hard copy of the same. The Traffic police then started shouting on me so i used m-parivahan app to find my PUC. This incident happened on the 27th of Feb and unfortunately my PUC had expired on the 26th Feb which i wasn’t aware of. he immediately removed his official device and clicked pictures of the car number plate which i was okay with. Then he immediately clicked a picture of me, so as to have an evidence myself of this traffic police officer i clicked a picture of him as well. Then he started shouting that how can you click a picture of a government official, so then i also asked him where is it written that in a signal jumping episode you have to click the picture of the driver as an evidence. He was unable to show me. He showed me that they need 3 evidence but nowhere was it written that they need a picture of me. They asked me to delete his picture from my phone which I immediately did, though i still dont think it is illegal to click the picture of an official who is doing things he shouldn’t do. This did not go down well with his ego. He started harassing me to the point where my wife and her sister started crying to let us go. I was ready to pay the fine online on his device but then he came to my window and started scratching it to see if we have put a film on it. Anyone with experience who sees my car will know that there are no film on it. I told him the same and he showed me a corner that they have made for themselves where other films are hanging. I was like they are all sun protection black films which is illegal. Then they show me completely transparent films. I have no idea as to why is putting a completely transparent film is illegal, i thought the glass should have 70-80% visibility. This just means that they have harassed other people also on the same spot. I asked him how much is the fine and i am ready to pay, he removes and hands me over a challan where he will confiscate my licence and i have to go the to police station and pay the fine within 15 days followed by showing up at the court and that after all this also my licence would be with the police for 3 months. I told him these were all old rules and that i know that i can pay a fine right here. To further harass me he kept my licence inside his pocket with his button closed and told me that he will give me the license only if i tell him sorry. On another note by this time i had noticed that the other officials had caught around 10 cars within a span of 15 minutes for jumping signals! Sir by all means this is not possible that everyone is jumping that signal within such a less time span. There was some tampering or something done either with the signal or something else which i have no clue about. Anyway, i did not apologise to him and after 5 min another official came to me and asked me are you ready to pay the fine. I said yes i am ready since a long time but this officer wants me to tell him sorry to give my license back. This officer then somehow convinced him to let me pay the fine and leave.
The name of the officer who was harassing us was Kishore Dodkade and he had around 5 more officials with him. My Challan number is TNCCM[protected].
Evidence 1 - The photo is not clear in the evidence. Cant see number plate or which car it is. The red signal is showing of the opposite side. I am sure they must have tampered the signals that when it is yellow over here it turns red on the other side or something like that.
Evidence 3 - they clicked a photo of me which i really dont think is needed in an evidence.
I am sure for people who are scared they must either be paying the fine or be bribing them(most probably the latter) otherwise so many officials wont stand at one point and catch so many cars within a time span of 15mins!
Sir, in this email i am only trying to share my Experience with the traffic police officials. I am not asking for a refund. I am just trying to bring this incident to your notice and asking you to please check and verify that spot because i still believe i had crossed the signal when the signal just turned yellow. Any action taken or not taken towards the officials doesn’t matter to me because i already know nothing is going to change. I just wish this incident didn’t happen and the officials over there were not fooling people and if anything, were there to help people which they clearly were not and that he didn’t have to put his ego in front of his work and do all this to harass me and my family.
With this email i am sending you picture of my PUC which clearly shows that it had expired just the last night. And also the pictures of his evidence which are not clear.
Also it was my Sister-in-law’s birthday that day, a birthday she will always remember.
Thankyou.
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