The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has lodged a complaint with the MRA Marg police against the employees of a parking contractor for overcharging drivers at a pay and parking spot in Kala Ghoda area of South Mumbai. After receiving several complaints in this matter, the process of blacklisting the contractor has also been started after he was found overcharging drivers during a sting operation conducted by the BMC.
According to information received from BMC officials, the contractor was appointed by the BMC to operate a pay and park facility for 100 four-wheelers and 45 two-wheelers near Jahangir Art Gallery and VB gandhi Marg in Kala Ghoda area.
Employees were charging more than the authorized rates
The fixed fee is Rs 20 per hour for two-wheelers and Rs 70 per hour for four-wheelers, but BMC received complaints that the contractor's representatives were charging more than the authorized rates. After these complaints, a sting operation was planned. BMC officials conducted the operation at the parking lot in Kala Ghoda using private vehicles and hiding their identity.During this, the officials found that the contractor's representatives were charging Rs 150 per hour instead of the prescribed Rs 70 for four-wheelers. Apart from this, the employees also covered the no parking signs installed by BMC and also used those areas to park vehicles.
Employees were not in uniform
It was also found that some employees were not wearing uniforms or did not have valid identity badges. After this, BMC lodged a complaint with the police. Further investigation is going on in this matter.At the same time, Mumbai's Gamdevi police has also registered a case against 5 parking mafias for parking vehicles on illegal parking and charging more than the prescribed amount from car owners.The people against whom the case has been registered in this case have been identified as gautam Kumar Sagal, gautam Harish Giri, Sushant Sonthan Das, Mant Sanatan Das and Tapas Patnaik.
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