Man booked for breaking car wheel clamp walks free
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 30
An Ambala resident was acquitted of charges of damaging a wheel clamp of the Chandigarh traffic police. Abhishek Jain was accused of driving his car with the wheel clamp on and thus damaging it. However, the police could not prove in the court that the clamp was damaged by Abhishek and he was thus let-off.
As per the FIR, on July 22, 2017, two policemen were towing away and clamping wrongly parked cars in Sector 43 here. When they reached outside the bus stand in the area, they saw a white Santro car wrongly parked on the road. They thus clamped both wheels (front and back) on the driver’s side and also attached slips on the driver’s side window and the front wind shield.
The FIR says that the policemen saw the driver arriving, starting his car and driving off. In this attempt, the front clamp was broken and the police reached the spot and questioned the driver. Abhishek was thus booked under Section 3 of the Prevention of Damage to the Public Property Act.
However, as per defence counsel Amarjit Singh, the police failed to produce any independent witness.
“It was a crowded place at 12 noon and still the police failed to produce an independent witness,” he said. The plea taken by Abhishek was that he did not damage the clamp and the police could not prove that he had done so.
