In an incident of police extortion, traffic police in Chennai fined an elderly couple for allegedly not wearing masks while travelling inside their private car.
A tweet posted by a journalist of The New Indian Express said that her parents who were travelling in their own car near Royapuram bridge on January 31 were cornered by the traffice police and fined ₹500 for not wearing masks.
My parents were fined Rs.500 tonight near Royapuram bridge for not wearing a mask inside their own car. For how long will @ChennaiTraffic continue this extortion in the name of enforcing #COVID19 protocol? pic.twitter.com/RnijxUXfkC
— Nivetha Sekar (@NivethaSekar10) January 31, 2022
The journalist lashed out at the Chennai Traffic Police asking how a closed private car with two people from the same house be a ‘public’ place?
“Now we know what’s the pathetic reality behind all those 100s of crores of fines collected every day for Covid ‘violations’.”, she mentioned in her tweet.
This has led to a huge outcry on social media with netizens coming down heavy on city’s traffic police for extorting the public under the garb of fine.
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