Priyanka Tiwari
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Suspense crime, Digital Desk : Aiming at easing traffic congestion in Mumbai, the Bombay High Court has directed all police stations in the city to abide by the order given by the traffic police regarding the removal and disposal of abandoned and seized vehicles. The court stressed that the roadways and public areas of Mumbai cannot be utilized as dumping sites for towed vehicles.
The order has been given on May 8 from a bench of justices G S Kulkarni and Advait Sethna, goes along with the mounting concerns over the underserved footpaths and roads blocked by seized vehicles waiting for traffic enforcement.
“Mumbai’s already crammed streets, gasping for space, cannot double as graveyards for abandoned vehicles,” the bench underscored and while judging about the not-so-acute-deficit of space in the public passages and footpaths which need to be absolutely free of blockades.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Marathon Maxima Co-op Housing Society, which has been perturbed over the rampant dumping of vehicles by a police vehicle outside the society’s premises.
The Disposal Policy Of Vehicles Declared Ineffective
By way of an affidavit, the Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Court of Ahemdabad submitted that ‘Directions were given to every police station a month ago to relocate found or impounded vehicles to the specified disposal sites’
With an intention to go beyond removing the vehicles from the premises, the court added that “de-congestion” or “relocation” in this case, is only a small fraction of the resolution. Without advising, frameworks, or strategies “in the long term,” doing so is insufficient.
Moreover, the court urged the government of the state to reserve wards per municipality, as regions in each civics fetch wards store these vehicles, and charged the police in due time before the hearing for the session, which is on 2nd July and the head mouse suggested a comprehensive approach.
Action Should This Be Ignored Will Fall Under Disciplinary Sanctions
As for traffic counts and police forces hearings, non-observance of any kind of of instruction given by a department incurs police enforcement – enforcement action. For other members, however, explanatory consequences are inevitable.
Via these non-negotiated discussions, the cadre established that non-observance of imposed restrictions will inflict damage to even the most junior members of the service’s category."
The court added, “There shall be no negotiations availabe to argue that the orders placed by the traffic department are to go unheeded."BMC Awards Vehicle Scrapping Contract to Private Firm
In a bid to tackle the problem, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has awarded a contract to a private company for locating and scrapping forsaken vehicles. This initiative should help in enhancing the availability of public space and orderliness on the roads of Mumbai.
