NO VEHICLE CAN BE STOPPED FOR CHECKS UNLESS THERE’S VIOLATION
New Delhi (The Quiver): No vehicle to be stopped for checks unless it is a case of a traffic violation or drunk driving ,such an announcement is done by Karnataka director general of police (DGP) .
According to reports, Karnataka’s DGP passed this order after people complained of harassment by traffic police on the pretext of document verification.DGP Praveen Sood said the police commissioner of Bengaluru City has been directed to implement the orders immediately.
A Twitter user – while responding to journalist DP Satish over his complaints of a long queue in Bengaluru as traffic cops were “checking documents” – wrote, “When Praveen Sood was ACP traffic, he had banned stopping vehicles for checking documents. You could be stopped only for an offense. Now with Praveen Sood as DGP, stopping vehicles everywhere is a daily phenomenon!@Copsview.”
To that, the top officer replied from his personal handle, “I reiterate again… no vehicle SHALL BE STOPPED merely for checking documents unless it has committed a traffic violation visible to the naked eye. Only exception is drunken driving.” The official handle of Karnataka DGP also retweeted the post later.
New Delhi (The Quiver): No vehicle to be stopped for checks unless it is a case of a traffic violation or drunk driving ,such an announcement is done by Karnataka director general of police (DGP) .
According to reports, Karnataka’s DGP passed this order after people complained of harassment by traffic police on the pretext of document verification.
DGP Praveen Sood said the police commissioner of Bengaluru City has been directed to implement the orders immediately.
A Twitter user – while responding to journalist DP Satish over his complaints of a long queue in Bengaluru as traffic cops were “checking documents” – wrote, “When Praveen Sood was ACP traffic, he had banned stopping vehicles for checking documents. You could be stopped only for an offense. Now with Praveen Sood as DGP, stopping vehicles everywhere is a daily phenomenon!@Copsview.”
To that, the top officer replied from his personal handle, “I reiterate again… no vehicle SHALL BE STOPPED merely for checking documents unless it has committed a traffic violation visible to the naked eye. Only exception is drunken driving.” The official handle of Karnataka DGP also retweeted the post later.
