City's fascination with 'lal batti' irks cops

Sunday, Oct 31, 2010



A senior Delhi traffic police officer on Saturday wrote that his department was facing problems checking illegal use of red beacon lights on vehicles, terming it as a "tendency to look important when one is not".

Satyendra Garg, joint commissioner of police (traffic), wrote on a social networking site that his department recently caught an Ambassador car of a prominent builder of the city with a red beacon light. "A vehicle with red beacon was caught in Mehrauli area. When checked, it was found that the vehicle was a private white ambassador belonging to one prominent builder. The builder had given this vehicle to a politician of a regional party who unauthorisedly put the red beacon and siren," he wrote. The vehicle was impounded and slapped a fine of Rs.2,800. ians

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