-: [rti4empowerment] "Hafta Diary" of Delhi Traffic Police

Friends,

News item placed below shows institutionalized corruption by Traffic Department of Delhi Police. It implies that information regarding collection of "hafta" is disseminated entire traffic department, so that illegal transporters are not apprehended.There seems to be flaw in the report in Daily Bhaskar.

If they collect "hafta" from illegal transporters, keep records of these transactions and disseminate to entire Traffic Department, am I being too naive to suggest that the News Paper may use RTI Act to obtain copy of relevant records?

Dhirendra Krishna

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Delhi gang-rape exclusive: Cops' lies nailed, bus was traced in 'hafta' record
Tarique Anwar, Dailybhaskar.com | Jan 02, 2013, 02:30AM IST

New Delhi: As the angry outbursts over the death of a 23-year-old gang-rape victim continue unabated, a new revelation is sure to trigger a fresh storm.

It is illegal to allow transporters to run buses after-hours, but had the lackadaisical police not permitted this, the bus that was the epicentre of the horrific incident couldn't have been zeroed in.

Sources in the Delhi Police told Dailybhaskar that a traffic policeman had recorded the registration number of the bus in a 'hafta' diary - a record of illegally-plying buses for which bribes have been paid for exemption of prosecution. That immunity from the police, however, is seen as the sole reason the gang-rape was not detected as no cop intercepted it while it circled the area slowly, the said.

The cop identified the bus when the police relayed the description provided by the victims. It finally led the police to zero in on two transporters with Yadav as their surnames.

The entry diary (used by traffic policemen to collect protection money from transporters) gave the exact registration number of the bus, which was later corroborated by a police informer who identified the rapists on the basis of the description provided by the male friend of the girl who was also thrashed mercilessly, the sources added.

The very fact that the bus was plying illegally for hours on Sunday night with impunity suggests the active collusion of traffic police personnel.

The bus was culled from a list of 370 chartered buses and the owner Dinesh Yadav was picked up by the police from his Noida Sector 62 residence and brought to verify the description of driver Ram Singh and also identify him after his arrest.

Yadav has contracted the bus to two schools in Noida and South Delhi. He used the bus for picking up passengers after evening and this could not have happened without the connivance of certain personnel in the Delhi Traffic Police, which facilitated the illegal operation with rogue driver Ram Singh at the wheels.

The one fact that has left many red faces in Delhi Police is the sheer brazenness of the accused in circling the same stretch multiple times on the fateful night. After brutalizing the girl and throwing her out of the moving bus alongwith her male companion, Mukesh, brought the bus to the same stand at Munirka. Even while the rape was being committed, the bus passed unchallenged by cops on the road.

Mukesh had admitted before the police that he was instructed by his brother to drive slowly while others took turns in raping the girl.

She and her friend were thrown out of the bus during the second round when the bus was negotiating the U-turn below the Mahipalpur flyover. The bus entered Munirka area for the third time after the gangrape and it was taken to Noida by Ram Singh where the bus was washed to erase evidence.

Senior Delhi Police officers admit that there were lapses on part of the Traffic Police that failed to track down buses running illegally after evening hours in the city.