Protest continues against traffic wardens

Lahore:  Ichra circle and Shadman sector traffic wardens have been crying on spear to torture and manhandling citizens.

Following the persistent protests of traders and residents in the surrounding, now transporters have started protesting against the traffic wardens.

The transporters continued their protest for the third consecutive day against the brutal torture of one of their fellow and the passengers and his arrest. According to details Ichra sector traffic inspector M Aslam and his accomplices brutally tortured passengers and the driver of a van P/9553.

The wardens also broke up teeth of the driver and locked him up. When the fellow transporters came to know about the incident, they staged protest demonstration against the wardens in front of the Ichra police station.

An eyewitness said that driver of the van Sultan went for drinking water parking his van near Muslim and Ichra sector inch rage passed derogator remarks and called his name (abusing) took the van full seated van with passengers to Ichra police station. He said that the warden then with his accomplices brutally tortured him and broke up one of his teeth and when one citizen Amanat Ali intervened to normalize the situation but the wardens also manhandled the citizen and left him to bear the pain.

Meanwhile Shadman sector traffic inchrage cruelly tortured a fruit vendor Muhammad Rafique for not giving the traffic inspector expensive fruits free of cost and registered an FIR against his son Shahbaz and threatened him of dire consequences while the other stallholders who give fruits to the inspector Nasir Gill were not touched. It is pertinent to mention here that the traffic wardens under Ichra circle and Shadman sectors has started to campaign of registering fake FIRs and brutally torturing the citizens either they are children or old age people since the Metro Bus has been made functional.

They even don’t respect the families with the motorists. On Friday also one warden Shrafat Ali of Ichra circle brutally tortured one resident Nawaz before the eyes of his wife when he was coming back to his home after getting examined her six month old daughter, a section of press reported. Similarly in the month of April the same warden and his accomplices brutally tortured an old man, two brothers and implicated them in a fake FIR afterward.

The residents have been protesting continuously against the ‘hooliganism’ but none of the concerned authorizes has taken stock of the rising complain, the residents said. They demanded immediate removal of the circle DSP Sajad Bahti and hooligan wardens Mujeeb and others. Wardens say that it was not their fault that the Punjab government had not provided the crossing to the residents of Ichra, Zeldar Park, Shah Jamal and Fazlia Colony.