The police today challaned vehicles belonging to several high-profile individuals, including PWD Minister Vikramaditya Singh, on a sealed road in Shimla amid a protest by lawyers.
Upset over being barred from using the sealed road without a valid permit, the lawyers stopped several vehicles on the road and checked whether they possessed the requisite permits. Whenever a vehicle was found plying without a valid permit, the lawyers insisted that the police issue a challan.
Former Congress state president Pratibha Singh, who PWD Minister’s mother, was travelling in one of the vehicles stopped by the protesting lawyers. The police confirmed that the vehicle was challaned as it did not possess a valid permit to use the sealed road. Vehicles of a senior police official and a senior bureaucrat were also challaned.
Later, the lawyers staged a protest outside the State Secretariat for over two hours, disrupting traffic movement on the Circular Road. The protest was called off only after Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu met the lawyers and assured them that a mechanism would be worked out to facilitate their use of the sealed road.
