Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (DV)
Mangaluru, Dec 26: Two days after a seven-year-old boy was towed by the traffic police while he was inside the car, the traffic police retrieved evidence through CCTV footage that car was parked on the footpath and in this regard police have registered two cases.
It may be recalled that on Thursday evening, a lady from Mijar had come to Mallikatta in the city in her car along with the driver and two children. Her car was parked by the side of a residential complex there, after which she went to a shop nearby along with one of her sons. The driver and the seven-year-old boy were inside the car. The driver noticed that the lady had left behind her mobile phone inside the car and so he went to hand it over to her. Meanwhile, traffic police who came to spot, towed the vehicle away.
Before towing the vehicle, police had videographed the car. In the video, it is evident that windows of the car were tinted and it was locked, thus, police could not notice the boy inside the car. Later, the car was moved to Kadri East Traffic Police Station. Then the police saw boy inside the car.
It is said that MLA Vedavyasa Kamath gathered information about the incident. MLA suggested that police before towing any vehicles should take certain precautionary measures.
The woman had argued that she had not parked her car on the footpath, but the police have registered cases after gathering video footage and photos.
Police booked two cases for parking the car on footpath and using tint for window glasses.