New Delhi sources have stated that five traffic policemen were suspended on Thursday after they were found taking bribes from truck drivers on Tuesday night on the pretext of checking their GST receipts.
Sources have stated that the policemen, including an assistant sub-inspector acting as a zonal officer, got caught when the traffic police received a complaint that at least five drivers were stopped near toll booths in west Delhi during a night patrol and asked to show the documents. When they couldn't, the cops took money from them as "entry charge" and after one of the truck drivers recorded the incident and forwarded it to the WhatsApp number of the traffic police, senior officers took up the matter.
A senior police officer
said police have also appealed to everybody to report, on its Facebook page and
Twitter handle, any incident of overcharging by traffic personnel in the name
of GST and the users can log into our social media handles to post videos and
photographs of corrupt practices, which will be taken up.
