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Check post officials accused of fleecing bus operators on pretext of safety

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Newskarnataka – Mumbai

Mumbai: Bus operators  are alleging that the officials at the  Koggunahalli checkpost at Nippani of Belgaum on the Karnataka Maharashtra borders, were rampantly fleecing  the operators of the Mumbai-Mangalore buses on  the pretext of safety of passengers.

The grouse of the bus operators is that the transport officials on the pretext of  checking the safety of buses  particularly in the backdrop of  strict safety rules enforced following the Hyderabad bus tragedy  which charred to death 44 passengers and the  Haveri  bus fire that  claimed seven lives, were harassing the Maharashtra-Karnataka bus crew and passengers.

Another complaint is that  the officials  were  scattering all luggage in the bus after stopping the bus for hours together  even when the passengers are fast asleep by the time the buses reach the checkpost early in the morning.

It is learnt, many a time the sleepy passengers have refused to alight the buses to  facilitate examination, the result of which is that the  officials were demanding cash and even threatening to seize the bus otherwise.

 Further, it is said  the officials viewed the various goods in the luggage of the passengers with an eye of  suspicion as if they were explosive materials and then  refuse to allow them in buses.

The bus operators  have stressed the need to raise the issue at the Transport Ministry and Transport Department meeting scheduled to be held in Bangalore on December 17 to discuss  the GPS  installation and other issues and have urged the transport minister R Ramalinga Reddy to look into the matter and ensure  harassment free journey for the passengers  and bus crew by  providing them  due protection.

 

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