Dear all..... This is in response to the post shared by Mr. Chetan Choudari garu particularly in respect of reporting incidents/happenings around/accidents etc. to Police for their work. In fact some body or other are always reporting several matters to Police; otherwise the question arises as to how do they come to know of any accident/ incident of crime etc. as they do not happen only at their police stations and at their surroundings. Once it so happened I was travelling in a bus along with other co passengers. Suddenly a boy aged around 10 years went running across the road and it resulted in a fatal road accident. I told the Police and my statement was also recorded and investigation was take up. I do not know the end result of the case and of course it did not necessitate me to try to know the result of the case as the deceased boy was not known to me and the bus driver is also not connected to me. I simply acted as a normal citizen. That's all. In another occasion I was going by walk to a medical shop to buy medicines at a place called Madapur in Hyderabad city i. e. 17/07/2012 at around 16-00 hrs. I noticed a driver of APSRTC Bus No. AP11Z7534 driving the vehicle at a high speed in a sash and dangerous manner on Madhapur road, opposite to Apollo Pharmacy Medical Shop near Image Hospital junction causing endanger to human lives. At that time I and the other passerby were about to be hit and luckily we escaped from the danger. On that day at around 17.15 hrs. I called 100 (Police Control Room) and reported the matter requesting to inform the concerned to take action on the said driver. On 21/07/2012, I made a complaint about that matter online too. Since it was observed to be not taken any action, I went to the extent of making a written complaint also addressing the concerned Asst. Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Kukatpalli Traffic Division, Kukatpalli, Cyberabad Police Commissionerate. This time I wanted to know the results of the complaint sent by me. I made an Application under section 6 (1) of RTI Act-2005 on 19/11/2012 requesting to provide me the information on the action taken on my complaint dated 11/09/2012 i.e. to provide me a copy of the Action Taken Report (ATR). On 26/11/2012 i.e. a week days later to the date of making the Application under RTI Act the Inspector of Police, Madhapur Traffic Police Station, Cyberabad, examined me, ascertained the facts and recorded my statement. Subsequently an unsatisfactory and misleading reply was created for the purpose of giving some answer and sent it to me. In the course of enquiry the driver of the Bus Mr. Yadgiri who got enrolled with Service No.984462 was reported to be not fully qualified and an under trainee. If such irresponsible/untrained/inexperienced drivers are allowed to drive the RTC Buses, one can imagine the fate of the public moving on the roads. If the Police particularly the traffic enforcing agency are not aware of these things to prevent accidents one can imagine the plight of citizens rather pedestrians walking on the road sides. Later I came to know that no punitive action was taken against the driver. Another funny aspect is that the police denied of having received a phone call from me to No.100 (Police Control Room) at 17-15hrs. on 17/7/2012. My online complaint was there numbered CYBTR-21/07/2012-000781. Even now one can see my complaint online in the website of cyberabadpolice.gov.in There are several such online complaints by many citizens. In the same month I engaged a taxi in the Hyderabad city. As against the excess fare collected by the cab fellow I made a complaint but no action was taken by the concerned Police. One ACP of Hyderabad City himself wrote a complaint online as "HOMEGUARD ASKING MONEY BY WEARING A CONSTABLE DRESS ....." vide complaint number: CYBTR-24/01/2012-000604. Even now one can verify the complaint online in the website of cyberabadpolice.gov.in by entering the given complaint as it is. There is no action taken on it so far. As a response, it is updated by the concerned Inspector as "Sir, don’t encourage them, if any one ask money, please intimate us with details." It is not known as to who has to intimate whom and on what. When it is specifically written by a responsible officer like ACP online his observations seen on the road, without taking any action against the concerned, it is updated on the website irresponsibly advising the ACP not to encourage corruption. It is not known as to what it means. In this connection I recollected to my memory and wish to post the particulars of one more incident where illegal fines were falsely collected by Traffic Police, Secunderabad City. On 07/09/2012 one of my known persons aged around 35 years was going on his car No. AP09CM0069 by self driving in the morning hours to attend to his urgent work. His car's number plate was written as AP09CM69 instead of AP09CM0069. He was stopped on the road by a Sub-Inspector of Police Trimulgherry, Secunderabad on Old Boyanapalli road. His car keys were taken by the Police and he was asked to pay fine Rs. 1000/- for not getting the two 00 s written on the number plate before the number 69. He said he was going on some urgent work, that he forgot his purse at home and that he was not having readily that amount of Rs. 1000/- to pay. Then he was detained there and asked by the SI to pay the fine first and take his car. Funny aspect is that the Jeep (Police) on which the SI was sitting was also not having the so called '0' before its three (3) digitised number plate. Then he requested the SI to allow him to go to the nearest ATM to draw money and pay the fine amount. Even then the SI did not send him to any nearby ATM to draw the amount. In a way to get some kind of moral help at that point of time he rang up to me and narrated the situation there and about his detention/arrest. Being a Senior Citizen I just asked him to give the phone to the SI. He gave it to him. I questioned him as to why he has been arrested/detained. I told the SI as to how he would pay the fine without allowing him to go to any nearby ATM for drawing the required amount. Then the SI replied that he has not been arrested. I then asked him as to what does the detention by restraining his movements mean. For a simple alleged violation of putting the car's number plate, I asked him whether he can go to the extent of arresting him or detaining him and that he can as well issue a Vehicle Check Report directing him to pay the fine at a later point of time. Then the SI said that he will send him with a constable to ATM for drawing the money and pay the fine. That way the SI detained his car, sent him with the escort of a constable to nearby ATM and collected the amount of Rs.1000/- by issuing a receipt. When he contended that he was not having money, the SI could have issued a Vehicle Check Report asking him to pay the fine later not by going to the extent of detaining/arresting him and by seizing the vehicle for a simple violation. It clearly indicated that collection of money was the priority to the SI on duty there, instead of assessing rightly the situation whether any kind of unnecessary humiliation was being caused to the road user. In fact collection of revenue through fines is not the primary duty of Police than regulating traffic. Required man power is given for traffic police primarily to regulate the traffic and in that process, if they come across any violations they can note down the numbers and send notices to the concerned vehicle persons as is being often done for collecting the fines. There is a separate department called "Road Transport Authority" vested with full and more powers under Motor Vehicles Act & Rules to collect more revenue to Government. If the given man power is wasted like stationing themselves at a corner place or road side by the Police only for the purpose of collection of revenue either official or unofficial, legal or illegal, the very object for which the manpower given to regulate traffic will be defeated. It is not that the Senior Police Officers do not know this. For various reasons they themselves are reportedly fixing certain targets for this kind of collection of fine amounts and under that guise the lower level officers and staff are behaving as hey like. Then on my advise a complaint was sent to the concerned Dy. Commissioner of Police as the collection of Rs.1000/- was illegal and disproportionately applicable as per the provisions of Sec./Rule 177 of M.V.Act/Rules. It was falsely charged by issuing a challan. The SI noted down Rule. 192 (1) of M.V.Rules on the Challan Receipt while collecting the fine amount of Rs.1000/-. The rule position of 192 (1) is applicable for the vehicles driven without valid Registration. The vehicle was in fact got registered in the Month of August 2012. The checking of the Vehicle and imposition of fine took place in the month of September 2012. It can be seen even now online by anybody at the concerned website as to when the said vehicle was registered. Strictly speaking for displaying improper number plate to the vehicle attracts only Sec./Rule : 177 of Motor Vehicles Act/M.V.Rules for which the prescribed compounding fee is Rs.100/- but not Rs.1000/- as per the revised G.O.Ms.No. 108 Dated:18/08/2011 of TRANSPORT, ROADS AND BUILDINGS (TR-I) DEPARTMENT consequent on partial modification of the earlier G.O. Ms.No. 54 dated 29/03/2006 of TRANSPORT, ROADS AND BUILDINGS (TR-I) DEPARTMENT in which the compounding fee structure was relatively less. The modified G.O. Ms. 108 was issued upon a report of a state level Senior Police Officer Report to enhance the then existing compounding fee amounts. Again it became a big subject for discussion in enhancing the compoundIng fee structure by the Govt. upon the report of a Police Officer. For the irregular number plate, there is a separate Rule position against which a simple fine amount of Rs.100/- was prescribed in G.O.Ms.No.108 dated 18-08-2011 of Transport, Roads and Buildings (TR-1) Department, vide Sl.No.9 (the nature of offence/violation) of col.3 of the Schedule in the said G.O. Thus the checking officer can not charge with false and improper sections of Law and collect disproportionate fine amount. Further it is specially mentioned on the internet in the concerned police website "https://www.facebook.com/HYDTP/info?ref=ts" that under 'General Information' as to "Who can fine you?" – it is noted that "If you are charged falsely, accept the slip, Note the name and rank of the officer, forward a complaint with all details…..etc." . Under such circumstances arguments can not be picked up with the checking officer and the vehicle user can not contest from his side there legally with the departmental officers, since it was not a Court there. Had a Vehicle Check Report been issued by the Checking Sub-Inspector of Police the vehicle user would have either contested the matter in the court of Law or paid the fine online or at the place where he might be directed to pay it later, but the Sub-Inspector did not observe such matters and detained the vehicle user saying that he can not go without paying the fine. Under those circumstances he had no option excepting to accept the slip by paying the demanded amount; as guided by the departmental instructions in the internet and forwarding a complaint with details to the concerned Authority without rising any further unhealthy arguments there, though it is a fact that the checking Sub-Inspector of Police collected disproportionate amount by noting false sections of Law on the slip to the actual irregularity noticed by him on the number plate of his car. When the matter was taken to the notice of higher-ups in the department with details through a written complaint genuinely, it was thought that the matter would be enquired into judiciously and necessary action would be taken against the concerned. Instead, it was replied that no action was taken against the erred Police Officer, as the concerned vehicle user paid the demanded money, signed on the challan receipt; which was purportedly agreed to pay the fine. Here the question is that the Police are not vested with judicial powers to use discretion in imposing fines as they wish. When the compounding fee structure is given in the schedule, they can neither increase nor decrease the fine amounts and they are required to strictly adhere to the stipulations. Several such irregularities are being noticed every day and the general public are getting exploited for obvious reasons. A written report was given by me as a responsible citizen to our concerned jurisdictional Police to take action on Public nuisance either u/s 290 IPC or under the provisions of Town Nuisance Act against the erred to prevent open defecation taking place near by our residences, since the Municipal Corporation utterly failed to provide required lavatory facilities to a colony which was earmarked for the occupation of weaker sections and on the other hand falsely shown built 157 ILCS (Integrated Low Cost Sanitation) units and swindled the construction costs; no action was taken. It needs some duty boundedness and responsibility on the part of the concerned Officers and staff. I have number of such incidents to be reported and I hope this becomes a lengthy matter. So civic responsibility is being seen and of course, people may not know where to report or whom to report etc. and to have a follow up action because of their own routine works. It is the concerned Government machinery to raise up to the occasion and sincerely work for the people. After all they are being paid for that. Neither the police nor any other public authorities can take up any silly pleas that they are not being informed about the happenings going on around them. If anybody claims like that he/she can be treated as a deadwood for the organisation to which he/she is working. more  

While refering to Dr. Padmanabhan Nair's comment about police men being fraud in Kerala, it is there in every state. Perhaps they are paid by our tax money and Govt. officials and politicians use them fully. Really I am ashamed of being in India, where tax payers are treated like dirt. Thanks to all party/Govt. more  

I wish to bring to the notice of the concerned about music played in local buses with very high volume and the crew, when asked to reduce the volume, they don't do it. This is regular affair in State owned transport and private operators in Tamil Nadu. Is it there in other states? Can we think of setting this right? more  

Mr. Chauhan has put up valid points to be considered by law and order. But after freedom we are the slaves of our own people because of Caste differences, Wealth differences, Gang corruptions, Muscle power, Open protection given by Local political members to goons and their party workers etc. Is it not happening in BJP raj today? Look politicians and Government officials use following mentality of a common man: 1. Common man is not united. He worries about himself and his family. 2. If there are 4 to 5 brothers are staying with their family, no Police or politician touch them. And the reality is that, criminals exist in such families, it has no bar of caste, it includes Brahmina , Kshatriyas and other too. As observed by us for past 55+ years, Mumbai is spoiled by UP, Bohari, Rajasthani, Hariyan people mainly. They created pockets of statewide gangs in and around Mumbai from Vapi, Boiser to N.Mumbai, Nasik etc. Job market is looted by South Indians in Mumbai. Do you think they are rally capable? Its a common sense, if a person is not taught Mathematics how he will come to know what is maths. 3. If you will study Quarters provided by Government, Public sector companies, Banks etc. you will lots of illegal activities are going in this area eg. Number of security guards from other locality will come to sleep, use power, water of the Government colony at free of cost. Such guards has nothing to do with that government complex. Slowly they starts teasing young girls and women and then the next step. Solution : Every Government employee should have surprise visit in such colonies. If he will find anything wrong, he has to involve police. No union leaders should be allowed to interfere. Union leaders involvement should be taken as crime and he should be removed from job and no pension to given to him. Why common man is keeping mum? The worst and unsafe social system of our country. People tolerate everything and keep mum, finally they go into depression and become coward. Many of the people in such colonies has dirtiest mentality like Statism, Casteism etc. and so their involvement depends upon whose, who and why? more  

Have you anytime reported accident on road? Yes I took accidental victim to DDU Hospital- they said it is Police Case & I will have to be witness- I said no matter you first treat him & I am prepared. 2. Have you ever reported police about Gangs of goons roaming around your area, teasing or commenting YES on many Occassions, On one Occassion the SI told his Contable To tear His Pocket to book me instead & On other Occassion 1 goon threw Brick on my Neighbor & I rang 100. Police took him & me to Chowki I & my neighbor was also asked to stand facing the wall along with the brickbat thrower. It was difficult- I being 70 ys od 3. Where to report about LOUD SOUND system disturbing the area & near hospitals? Yes Earlier before the AAp Govt Police Suo-Moto reached Marriage/Jagran Pandals to wind up or low the tone, but not now a days more