MUMBAI:
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’s two official cars violated various
traffic rules this year, an RTI reply by the traffic police has revealed. RTI activist Shakeel Ahmed, who sought the information, says Fadnavis’s two cars jumped singals, violated speed limits and even parked in a no-parking zone.
The fines for these offences added up to Rs 13,000 and e-challans were issued, but officials said protocol dictated that no fines need be paid by the CM’s office for the official cars. Officials connected to the CMO said queries should be directed to the traffic police. “Traffic challans are auto generated through deployed speed cameras,” JCP (traffic) Amitesh Kumar said.
“Convoy vehicles of CM are exempted from speed limits due to security threat perception. Technical glitches in the software which generates e-challans is being rectified.” Ahmed said the government should issue a government resolution if it wanted the CM exempted.
