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Mangalore: Auto Drivers Fined for Refusing to Take in Commuters

  •   Sat, Sep 10 2011 09:12:56 AM

Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Sep 10: Two auto rickshaw drivers, who refused to take passengers bound for certain destinations in the city, were fined by the policemen of Barke station in the city on the night of Thursday September 8. The drivers, identified as Shekhar and Umesh, who were operating from the auto rickshaw stand of KSRTC bus stand here, had refused to take in passengers.

Cases were registered against them, and a fine of Rs 500 each was imposed. They were also warned not to repeat this conduct henceforth.

Reportedly, some passengers who came by buses approached these auto rickshaw drivers for ferrying them to their destinations. Assistant commissioner of police, Ravindra Gadadi, who was in the bus stand in plain clothes at the time, saw the auto drivers arguing with passengers. When he tried to convince the drivers to carry the passengers to the specified destinations, they refused, not knowing that he was a police officer. The ACP then registered a complaint in Barke police station and ensured that they coughed up fine.

The policemen have requested people to complain to them if the auto rickshaw drivers refuse to abide by the rules which make it mandatory for them to ferry passengers to any destination within the city limits at agreed rates.
  

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  • E P Cutinha, Mangalore

    Sat, Sep 10 2011

    As per my experience, atleast half of the auto drivers in Mangalore refuse to ferry passengers to the places the passengers want to go. The situation is worse at nights. This is perhaps the first time that two of them are booked.

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  • Santhu, Mangalapuram

    Sat, Sep 10 2011

    There have been frequent complaints about rickshaw-drivers refusing to take passengers to certain destinations or fleecing them by charging exorbitant fares. Not many care to complain to the police or the RTO in view of the time wasted and the hassles of following it up. They only curse and pay up quietly.

    City's assistant commissioner of police Ravindra Gadadi got an opportunity to observe such an instance in his own eyes on Thursday night. He was in plainclothes and had just got down from a bus after a long-distance journey. As he was about to go home, he observed that two autorickshaw-drivers, Umesh and Shekhar, were refusing to take two passengers to their destinations.

    Gadadi is said to have told them politely to take the passengers. The drivers replied rudely without realizing who he was. He called the Barke police immediately and got them to pay a fine of Rs 500 each.

    The police have requested the public not to hesitate in such cases to call the police and report the matter.



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  • nathan, mangalore

    Fri, Sep 09 2011

    Good step taken, There some auto drivers in railway station who cheat the passengers & tell very high rates or they refuse.

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