5th Day of Special Drive: 23 vehicles fined
On the fifth day of the special drive against traffic rule violators, the traffic police penalised 23 vehicles, including a Dhaka University bus, for taking the wrong way on the city's Hare Road yesterday.
Apart from the DU bus, a jeep of a top official of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company, two private cars, six CNG run auto-rickshaws and 13 motorcycles, including one of a police constable, were penalised during the two-hour drive that started on 5:00pm on the busy road.
Md Alauddin, senior assistant commissioner of Ramna Zone Traffic Police, told The Daily Star that they carried out the drive amid rain and would continue the effort.
Like on previous days, a police team took position in front of Sugandha Foreign Service Academy and started fining vehicles driving against the traffic.
At around 5:45pm, a driver of a red-coloured single-decker Dhaka University bus was fined for plying against the traffic.
Police constable Ariful Islam of Protection Division of DMP was also caught violating traffic rules by his colleagues.
When signalled to stop at the check post, he first tried speeding away, but another team stationed further away caught him.
Ariful's motorcycle was also found to be not registered with BRTA. He claimed that it was an official motorcycle he had gotten recently.
AC Alauddin said action will be taken against whoever violates traffic rules.
A traffic sergeant of the team told The Daily Star, “the ongoing drive has brought discipline on the Hare Road but today [yesterday] they might have driven on the wrong side thinking the police are not there during the rain.”
Previously, cars carrying ministers, lawmakers, high-ranking civilians, military and police officials, ruling party leaders and journalists going against the flow of traffic while others remained stuck in tailbacks had become a common phenomenon on Hare Road.
The scenario has started to change gradually after police penalised a state minister, a lawmaker, several top bureaucrats, an army officer and several police officials during the drives that started on Sunday.
Meanwhile, different media outlets, quoting police officials on the spot at Bijoy Sarani during Tuesday's drive, reported that an SUV belonging to an additional deputy inspector general of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) was also penalised for taking the wrong side.
But police headquarters yesterday confirmed that the SUV belonged to the additional DIG of the Special Branch of Police and not the CID.
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