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Hundreds of vehicles, motorbikes with traffic police, hangama at Poloview

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Srinagar:

After the recent high level meeting conducted by two cabinet ministers of Mehbooba Mufti in Kashmir division in which they took strong note of power curtailment and traffic mess in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir. One of the Ministers Nayeem Akhtar told higher-ups of Traffic Police that the government will not tolerate any excuses for traffic mess in Srinagar.

Police started removing the mess in their own way by making life of hundreds of people miserable on the roads of Srinagar. Traffic Police which has already hired private vehicles for lifting motorbikes and vehicles, have confisticated hundreds of vehicles including the two wheelers and have filled-up even the yard adjacent to them near Poloview. Hundreds of people including large number of girls and women are seen outside the traffic department office near Poloview to get their vehicles back.

Most of the people complained that lot of money is changing hands in the name of removing traffic mess in Srinagar and in one of such incidents on Saturday evening, the shopkeepers of Poloview squatted on the road against the highhandedness of traffic cops as they started lifting the vehicles of the shopkeepers also in the area in the name of removing traffic mess. The shopkeepers have appealed the government to stop the cops from making money in the name of clearing traffic mess in Srinagar.

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