Tanker lorry in hit and run in Chennai: Look out for PY 01 Q 2377
A white tanker lorry involved in a car hit-and-run case escaped in traffic on Kamarajar Salai today, November 22, 2007 around 11.15 a.m.
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The hit and run vehicle PY 01 Q 2377 did not cause injuries but damaged a car on the road and escaped. It is possibly involved in some criminal activity. Since the tanker did not heed the signal of road users to stop all along Kamarajar Salai from All India Radio to Napier Bridge, it is most probably involved in some illegal activity.
If you own this vehicle, you should report to Police, if not the insurance company for this tanker should respond. This tanker is not fit for insurance and it is driven by people who do not know driving and are probably not properly licensed.
Members of the public should report the sighting of this tanker to police, urging a proper investigation into its activities.
A call was made to Police on the emergency number 100 today at about 11.25 a.m. but there was no response and the control room did not respond to the call which apparently dropped.
Such vehicles must be refused insurance and pulled off the road, and their rash and negligent drivers arrested for prima facie illegality because they cause economic loss to the country in general and law-abiding individuals in particular.
These drivers make motor vehicle insurance meaningless, because they cause avoidable claims and affect those with unavoidable insurance claims. The operation of nationalised motor vehicle insurance through compalies such as the United India Insurance, National Insurance and others is bankrupted by such drivers, although these companies are partly to blame themselves for not insisting on proper enforcement by the Police and the installation of closed circuit television cameras along roads to fix responsibility.
It is also strange that the Chennai City Police control room did not respond to the call on an emergency number. Even if it was cut off due to call drop, the Police should have used the caller ID and returned the call immediately.
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You question the Police and they will Kill you...
http://newstodaynet.com/newsindex.php?id=3048%20&%20section=7
Tea shop owner Syed Ali (48) who died on Wednesday under mysterious circumstances after being taken for interrogation by the personnel of the R8 Vadapalani Police station, ‘was a victim of police brutality and being a genial personality he never sold lottery tickets,’ according to locals and small traders.
Angry locals and traders gathered near the tea shop on 100 Feet Road on Wednesday after the news of custodial death began to spread fast.
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They were agitated and expressed harsh words over the death of Ali, a native of Mallapuram district of Kerala who was running the shop here for over 20 years.
Here is a collated account (from various sources) of the incident that led to the eventual death of Syed Ali: ‘In the wee hours of Wednesday (around 5 am), three constables had tea in his shop and when he asked for money, they abused him and went away.
The three constables returned in a jeep with a sub-inspector at 7 am and the four policemen dragged Ali and tea-maker Anthony Master into the vehicle. They pocketed the Rs 1,050 found in the cash counter before taking the shop-owner in the jeep,’ said one witness.
‘The cops rained blows on both of them. I intervened to ask them the reason for the unprovoked assault on the shop owner and his staff. But they slapped and threatened me to mind my business,’ said R Kumar, driver at Harini Ceramics, a showroom opposite the tea shop.
Within twenty minutes after the duo were taken for interrogation, a telephone call to Shamseed, one of his three sons, informed that Syed Ali had died at the police station. His other son Ashraff is living with them at Azhagiri Nagar. Ali’s wife and elder son Thamseen are living in Kerala.
Vehemently denying that Ali was taken to the police station for selling lottery tickets, Kumar and other locals, mostly roadside traders, were of the view that it was a case of police excesses leading to the death of an innocent man.
Only a few days ago, Ali had returned from Mallapuram and he did not need to sell lottery tickets to earn money for his tea shop was doing good business, said the agitated traders. After he swooned at the police station, Master Anthony took him to Royapettah Government Hospital and the police did not take the injured Ali to the hospital, according to T Ananthan, secretary, Tea Shop Owners Association on 100 Feet Road.
He said the tell-tale marks of swollen eyes, body scars and blood patches on Ali’s shirt were clinching pointers that death was caused solely by an attack on him.
The traders and friends of Ali along with few members of Confederation of Tamilnadu Malayalees group led by its secretary Suresh Babu met Police Commissioner Nanchil Kumaran on Wednesday afternoon and briefed him on thel death of the tea-shop owner.
Perhaps forced by the picketing by traders and the public at the R8 station, Master Anthony under lock-up was released by the police late in the night on Wednesday.
City Police Commissioner on Thursday told media persons that impartial action would be taken into the alleged custodial death of Syed Ali.
Police defend action
A case of unnatural death under CrPC 174 has been registered and an RDO enquiry ordered in the matter. However, T Nagar DCP S Lakshmi said Syed Ali, the shop owner, was taken to the police station only for questioning as he continued to sell lottery tickets despite strict warning to him in the past.
‘There is no question of arrest or torture. We took him for routine enquiry. But he was suffering from health problems after the surgery he had undergone recently and this might have led to his death. Anyway, we are waiting for the report of the RDO enquiry,’ said Lakshmi.
She was camping along with Assistant Commissioners R Natarajan (Guindy) and A Soundarajan (Ashok Nagar) on the 100 Feet Road last night to prevent untoward incidents as large number of traders and locals had gathered near the tea shop which affected the movement of traffic for sometime.
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