Illegal collection and hooliganism in bus stand shows no sign of stopping
Raipur. Common people will get relief from illegal collection and hooliganism in the name of parking fee at the inter-state bus stand of the capital Raipur, soon a police post will be constructed here. While discussing this information with Janta Se Rishta, SSP Dr. Lal Umend Singh said that in view of the continuous complaints of hooliganism at the bus stand, a systematic police post will be constructed soon at the bus stand. Discussion has already been held with the zone commissioner in this regard. The root of the fight in the bus stand is in the name of parking and giving tickets to the passengers, it is worth noting that due to the presence of illegal ticket vendors in the bus stand, they create disputes with the passengers in the name of taking or not taking tickets from them and even beat them up. At the same time, a situation of dispute arises every day with the henchmen of the contractor who drops the passengers and runs the stand. Despite the provision of not charging any fee for parking the vehicle for half an hour at the stand from the drivers who come to drop off passengers, the workers working at the stand extort money from the drivers. In case of a dispute, the goons there beat up the drivers.
The passengers visiting the inter-state bus stand have to face a lot of trouble due to anti-social elements. Incidents like assault and abuse are happening every day, but on Saturday these anti-social elements attacked a passenger from Balodabazar. Such incidents have happened in the bus stand before as well. This includes incidents of robbery along with assault. Anti-social elements also come and go to the bus stand illegally, to control this, arrangements have been made for identity cards for the local employees of the police and transport department. But most of the employees present at the bus stand do not wear identity cards. In such a situation, the police is not able to reach the culprit easily in incidents like misbehavior and assault with the passengers. Actually, on Saturday, a passenger from Balodabazar was leaving the hotel after having food. During this, he had an argument with someone there, after which the passenger was beaten up. The passenger was bleeding continuously from his mouth due to injury in his nose and mouth. During this, the police team that reached the spot sent the passenger to the hospital for first aid. Anti-social elements take advantage of the lack of adequate police there. Recently, SP Dr. Lal Umend Singh had visited the new bus stand and gave strict instructions that no anti-social elements should be seen except the passengers.
Tarbahar police arrested 02 accused
At the old bus stand of Bilaspur, on Friday night, a youth was beating another while doing hooliganism after drinking alcohol. A media person immediately informed Tarbahar police about this. The patrolling team reached the spot and then chased and caught both the accused with weapons. It is being told that the police took the accused to the police station and released them.
The accused were roaming around fearlessly, on this a media person who had made a video of the fight that happened a day before, made it viral and raised questions on the actions of the police. As soon as the video went viral, the police finally woke up again and arrested the accused and issued a press release along with the weapons.
The names of the arrested accused are Hiralal alias Khotli, 29 years old resident of Chantidih and Arman Khan, 23 years old resident of Magarpara. The police have seized a hollow iron pipe and 2 pieces of sharp axes from both of them. Action has been taken against both the accused under the Arms Act and they have been sent to jail on remand.
On receiving information about the case from the media person, two accused were immediately arrested. Since both were drunk, they were admitted to the district hospital under police supervision. On Sunday, they were formally arrested and sent to jail on remand.
Discussions have been held with the zone commissioner regarding the police post in the new bus stand. The Municipal Corporation will renovate the building as soon as possible, after which a police post will be opened there.
-Dr. Lal Umend Singh, SSP Raipur
