local shopkeepers of Dehradun shuttered their shops and later blocked Rajpur Road, protesting against police having misbehaved with a local Congress leader lal Chand Sharma’s son on Monday. They demanded action against City Patrol Unit police for the alleged misbehaviour. later, a delegation led by Rajpur MlA met the Chief Minister Harish Rawat and demanded action against the errant policemen.
After Chief Minister assured them that action will be taken against the policemen concerned, the agitators called off their stir. Subsequently, traffic resumed.The local Congress workers and shopkeepers assembled at Astley Hall and started protesting. They shouted slogans against police department too while demanding transfer of the policemen concerned.
The Congress workers said police should impose penalty for traffic violations without humiliating the commuters. They alleged that the City Patrol Unit, which was formed as swift response team to curb crimes like chain snatching, eve-teasing and the like in the city, is now engaged in slapping challans on the traffic rule violators and misbehaving with the road users. This is just meant to force the violators to cough up money, said one of them. The women are also at the receiving end of the cops bent on inventing violations and making them to part with money, another of the agitators, said.