Towing incident: Police notice to man who shot the video

Joint Commissioner alleges it was false and misleading.

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Following the two incidents involving the towing vehicles, which gathered widespread publicity due to viral videos, Joint Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Dr B.R. Ravikanthe Gowda has provided details regarding both the incidents on his official Twitter handle.

He stated that the Jeevan Bhima Nagar incident is totally false and misleading and a notice has been served to the person who shot the video.

After the video of the JB Nagar towing vehicle went viral, an enquiry was made from the DCP level. The finding of the inquiry is that the S.J. Abraham, working in Flipkart, had parked his two-wheeler on Friday afternoon at around 4.30 pm under a no-parking board.

The ASI of the towing vehicle made an announcement to remove the vehicle, but there was no response. Hence the vehicle was towed.

Abraham who came after a few minutes found his vehicle being towed away and ran behind the towing truck. As the driver felt there could be a traffic jam if the towing vehicle was stopped on the spot, he halted it 15 to 20 metres away.

After Abraham admitted his mistake, his vehicle was given back after a warning, the Joint Commissioner’s two page posts on twitter states.

Abraham who was called for the enquiry has said that he has not paid any money for the towing vehicle or the ASI for releasing his vehicle. The same has been mentioned in his statements during the inquiry.

The person who shot the video has been identified as Harish Gowda Gudagal. He has been accused of misleading the actual facts in order to malign the traffic police. The said Gundagal is a political activist, and a notice has been issued to him to appear for the inquiry for posting the provoking video with misleading facts.

Giving details of the towing vehicle case in Halasuru Gate traffic police, where the video of ASI R Narayana, attached to a towing vehicle, the joint commissioner has stated that the ASI’s act is condemnable and action has been initiated against him.

The woman, who is seen being kicked in the video, has been identified as Kumari Manjamma alias Manjula. “There are two cases registered against her (crime numbers 64/2017 and 77/2017) and both the cases are in the trial stage. In the first case of 64/2017, she is alleged to have assaulted an on duty police officer, and in the second case of 77/2017, she has been accused of assaulting a civilian for not giving the parking charges and also damaging his vehicle,” the post stated. On the day of the assault, she was found collecting parking fees from motorists after allowing them to park on a no-parking road. After the video of the assault on her surfaced on Saturday, the ASI has been placed under suspension, the post stated.