Tribune News Service
Saurabh Malik
Chandigarh, May 25
The Punjab Police right now advised the Punjab and Haryana High Court (HC) that police boundaries can’t be arrange completely on nationwide and state highways for checking paperwork of automobiles. The police mentioned a barrier for brief length might be erected on highways.
Aim was to cease unauthorised interference
The data was furnished round two months after Justice Sangwan referred to as for affidavits from police chiefs with an intention to apply brakes on unauthorised interference by traffic and different cops deployed at nakas on the state and nationwide highways
“The major objective of stopping a automobile shouldn’t be checking its paperwork, however for safety functions and traffic violations,” Justice Arvind Singh Sangwan’s Bench was advised.
In an affidavit, Punjab Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav submitted that everlasting fixtures couldn’t be there. “On highways, these are erected/put in just for a restricted length to preserve clean circulate of traffic and guarantee safety,” it was added.
The data was furnished round two months after Justice Sangwan referred to as for affidavits from the police chiefs with an intention to apply brakes on unauthorised interference by traffic and different cops deployed at nakas on the state and nationwide highways.
Yadav acknowledged that a DDR was recorded on the respective police station/police publish by an official involved when a barrier was erected for any motive, together with checking unlawful actions, on the premise of intelligence inputs, apprehension of a critical legislation and order scenario or for checking over-speeding automobiles.
He mentioned police officers had the authority to cease any motorcar discovered committing traffic violation no matter the “registration variety of any state”. He mentioned all efforts had been made within the course of to not to create any hindrance within the clean circulate of traffic.
“Whenever a automobile is signalled to cease, the motive force is straight away instructed to park it on the intense left facet of the highway. While doing so, the Punjab Police makes all efforts to be sure that the general public shouldn’t be inconvenienced in any method and no traffic snarls are created, particularly within the thickly populated areas,” he mentioned.
The instructions by Justice Sangwan got here in a case the place a complainant-police official acknowledged that he was current on a fundamental highway alone whereas on traffic obligation. The complainant had an altercation with riders after he tried to cease their motorbike for checking paperwork. The matter was introduced to Justice Sangwan’s discover after the 2 accused filed petitions for grant of standard bail in an FIR registered towards them on March 18.
