On day 77 of MiD DAY's Meter Down campaign, commuters stated that they want RTO and traffic department to clamp down on errant auto drivers who are giving them a hard time by refusing to ply
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Manoj Rajbhar: "The engine has developed some kind of technical snag. It keeps going off on its own."
Rajesh Verma: "Since my rickshaw is from Malad, I did not know the destination that the passenger was asking me to ferry him."
Just Hand over your licence! A traffic cop intercepts an errant auto
driver who went on a spree of denying short distance passengers near
the station at Borivli
Spot of bother
Auto driver Jeet Yadav who refused a short distance fare, justified his act by stating, "The brakes have malfunctioned and I don't intend to risk mine or the passenger's life. Hence I refused the fare."
However, his lie was busted after an on-duty traffic cop tested the brakes and found them to be in perfect working condition.
Kishore Rajput, who was caught for driving without a badge, said, "I had to go to the nearby garage to get my vehicle fixed. Hence I'm not wearing my badge."
However, when a traffic constable asked Rajput to elaborate on the technical glitch that his auto had developed, he had no answers.
After he was nabbed for speeding away from a passenger, auto driver Parasnath Singh in his defence, said, "The previous passenger was still clearing his fare, when the other passenger approached me."
To this, the traffic constable who had apprehended him, replied, "If you were still interacting with the previous passenger, you should have asked the other one to wait or shouldn't have spoken to him. You spoke to him and later refused him, this holds you guilty for refusal."
Text: Nivedita Dargalkar
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