Within the days since a video of a policewoman from Haryana refusing to purchase a ticket in a Rajasthan Roadways bus went viral, officers of each states have been issuing challans to dozens of roadways buses from the opposite state.
The problem started with the purported video of a Haryana policewoman inside a Rajasthan roadways bus. Within the viral video, the cop, together with her face coated with a dupatta, is headed to Dharuhera in Haryana on the Rajasthan–Haryana border, however refuses to purchase the Rs 50 ticket. The bus conductor asks her to get down however she responds with a agency no. As an argument ensues between the 2, she says she is “employees,” insisting the Rs 50 ticket is just not relevant to her. With the bus stopped and different irritated passengers asking her to pay, she says “it really works in Haryana (roadways)”, earlier than somebody factors out “it’s a Rajasthan roadways bus”. It isn’t clear how the scenario ended.
After the video went viral, Haryana site visitors police personnel began stopping and issuing challan to a number of Rajasthan State Highway Transport Company (RSRTC) buses over two days, additionally clicking pictures with the buses they’d challaned. In one of many movies the place Haryana site visitors police personnel are seen issuing a challan to a Rajasthan Roadways bus, one of many Haryana cops is seen stating over a name, purportedly to a protesting Rajasthan official, that he has fined the utmost effective doable, together with for driving with out licence, seatbelt, gown, misbehaving, and many others.
“They’re principally issuing challans to non-AC buses,” an RSRTC conductor informed The Indian Categorical. Manoj Kumar Bansal, common supervisor (site visitors), with the RSRTC mentioned that about 40 RSRTC buses have been issued challans by Haryana site visitors police for lane change, driver not carrying uniform, not carrying a seatbelt, and many others. “Whereas some challans are for Rs 500 – 1000, some are as excessive as Rs 5,000,” Bansal mentioned, including that each one however one RSRTC bus issued a challan are non-AC.
One other senior RSRTC official mentioned, “They issued challans to 39 RSRTC buses over two days and Rajasthan did it just for two hours at this time (Sunday).”
The official additionally claimed that Rajasthan site visitors police have seized eight Haryana Roadways buses on Sunday and issued challans to over 100 of them. Nonetheless, different sources put the variety of Rajasthan buses which have been issued a challan at 90 and that of Haryana buses which have been issued a challan at 26.
“Their motion (of issuing challans to RSRTC buses) was reciprocal after the video went viral. We stored requesting them to not file challans however it appears that evidently the Haryana police related the video with their delight. And issuing challans to 39 of our buses can’t be finished with out the directions of upper ups,” the official alleged. He mentioned that the “indiscriminate challans have additionally affected the morale of our staff.”
RSRTC chairperson Shubhra Singh described the difficulty as “somewhat unlucky and uncalled for”. “We now have stored our restraint and we’re searching for an amicable decision,” she mentioned, including that the Rajasthan authorities “is making an attempt on the administrative stage to resolve this situation.”
