Mumbai: In order to make city airport free of touts, the Mumbai police have decided to apply stringent sections of the Bombay Police Act.
Under the Act, touts can be detained for 24 hours, unlike the present one wherein the accused is left by paying a nominal fine of Rs200. Repeated offenders can even be extern out of the city.
The development comes after steps taken by the airport authorities in collaboration with the police allowing the passenger to get the vehicle’s registration number while booking a pre-paid taxi from the airport. After the initiative was introduced a few months ago, the police officials claim that the touting incident have come down by half.
“Terminal 2 is about to be inaugurated, which means more air passenger traffic to be channelled through Mumbai. So we don’t want any unwarranted incident due to touting that could tarnish Mumbai’s image,” said a senior police official, adding “hence, we have decided to apply sections of the Bombay Police Act, against tout which would help us to clean the airport from these offenders.”
Read News In full 05/01/14 Shahkar Abidi/Daily News & Analysis
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