Petition against police rash driving

IMPHAL | Nov 26

A writ petition has been filed at Manipur High Court to investigate a vehicular collision on November 17 between a police gypsy van and a civilian-owned car near Utlou Lamkhai in Bishnupur.

The petitioner Thokchom Deepak Singh has claimed that he was been driving to Bishnupur when a team of police vehicles raced rashly towards him. Deepak moved to the extreme left of the road but a white police gypsy without a registration number came from behind the other police vehicles, trying to overtake them, hit his car, the petition claims.

Deepak escaped unhurt but his vehicle was badly damaged. He made a complaint on the same day with the officer-in-charge at Nambol police station under whose jurisdiction the accident took place but no action has been taken so far, the petition says. 

Further Deepak said that no action was taken after he wrote a letter about the incident to the Prime Minister’s office, which on November 21 forwarded it to AR and TT commissioner Rajesh Kumar.

Deepak has requested the high court to pass an interim order to make the officer-in-charge at Nambol police station register an FIR while petition is heard in the court.