KOLKATA: A police drive against illegal parking across the city has led to 27,540 motorists and truck drivers being fined over the past two weeks. The crackdown comes days after police commissioner Soumen Mitra called on the force to stop illegal parking. In a special order, Lalbazar had asked cops not to spare even government and police vehicles parked illegally.
Maximum prosecutions have taken place in commercial hubs like Park Street, Esplanade, SN Banerjee Road, Dalhousie, Burrabazar, Gariahat and Karaya. Guards covering various hospitals off EM Bypass also reported many illegal parking cases.
“We have decided to act against illegal parking as we have received multiple complaints. We also found that after easing of Covid norms, a section of people were trying to take advantage of the fact that we had stopped checking parking when the Covid crisis was at its peak and there were fewer vehicles on the road,” said DC (traffic) Arijit Sinha.
The drive will continue and focus on important roads in north and south Kolkata, including Bhupen Bose Avenue, CR Avenue, JL Nehru Road, Ashutosh Mukherjee Road, SP Mukherjee Road and Deshapran Sashmal Road. The drive will also focus on the illegal parking of trucks at night.
