Residents misuse curfew passes
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 9
City residents have been found misusing curfew passes to drive around in the city. The police claimed that people have been found either using curfew passes issued for a two-wheeler to drive a car or using it on multiple vehicles.
The police said the passes issued for essential services were also being misused. Traffic cops stopped a Duster car for checking at a naka on the road dividing Sector 40/41 here today. The car driver furnished a pass, which was issued to ride an Activa scooter. However, the car was driven on the same pass. The police impounded the vehicle and issued a challan.
The police said people make lame excuses after getting caught for misusing curfew passes.
Sub-Inspector (SI) Sarwan Singh, who was at the naka, stated that the boy, who was driving the car, said the Activa scooter for which the curfew pass was issued broke down following which he drove a car.
“When we impounded the car, the boy called his father on the spot. His father reached there on the same Activa to which the pass was issued,” the SI said.
Similarly, an Activa scooter bearing a Mohali number was also impounded for a similar offence.
“The curfew pass was issued to another Activa scooter and it was illegally used to driver another scooter,” said a police official.
The police said a large number of incidents of curfew passes being misused were reported at nakas laid across the city.
It has been found that people have photocopied the pass to use it for different vehicles.
