Toll Plazas For Lawmakers

The stringent Goonda Act was invoked against Gyanpur MLA Vijay Mishra after taking cognisance of an audio clip in which the lawmaker is allegedly issuing threats for not getting tender of a toll plaza, Bhadohi Superintendent of Police Ram Badan Singh said on Saturday.

Agra district police have arrested two security guards of Bhartiya Janata Party Lok Sabha member Ram Shankar Katheria for allegedly opening fire at a toll plaza on July 6, an officer said.

A BJP lawmaker watched as his son and supporters thrashed an employee at a toll plaza in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura on Tuesday, an incident that has been caught on security cameras and reinforces that many such services remain easy bait for "VIP" bullying despite public anger and protests.

The staffers at a toll plaza in UP's today ran away, leaving the booth unattended for hours after a BJP legislator confronted them for allegedly collecting toll "illegally".

Out for a party last evening, the inebriated son of a ruling party leader in Telangana ended the day with a fistfight and knife attack. Manish Goud, the son of Telangana Rashtra Samiti leader Ram Mohan Goud, and his friends were caught on camera at Kadgal toll plaza, about 80 km from Hyderabad. One of them was seen brandishing a knife at an injured...

The Uttar Pradesh government has revoked its decision to provide a dedicated corridor at toll plazas for lawmakers in case of traffic snarls, after drawing flak from the opposition.

Angry that he had to queue up at the highways toll plaza, a BJP lawmaker in Karnataka allegedly manhandled the toll booth manager who tried to pacify him. B Suresh Gowda, the BJP's lawmaker from Tumkur Rural seat, was livid that the Kyathasandra toll plaza in Tumkur district did not have a separate lane for VIPs like him.

The stringent Goonda Act was invoked against Gyanpur MLA Vijay Mishra after taking cognisance of an audio clip in which the lawmaker is allegedly issuing threats for not getting tender of a toll plaza, Bhadohi Superintendent of Police Ram Badan Singh said on Saturday.

Agra district police have arrested two security guards of Bhartiya Janata Party Lok Sabha member Ram Shankar Katheria for allegedly opening fire at a toll plaza on July 6, an officer said.

A BJP lawmaker watched as his son and supporters thrashed an employee at a toll plaza in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura on Tuesday, an incident that has been caught on security cameras and reinforces that many such services remain easy bait for "VIP" bullying despite public anger and protests.

The staffers at a toll plaza in UP's today ran away, leaving the booth unattended for hours after a BJP legislator confronted them for allegedly collecting toll "illegally".

Out for a party last evening, the inebriated son of a ruling party leader in Telangana ended the day with a fistfight and knife attack. Manish Goud, the son of Telangana Rashtra Samiti leader Ram Mohan Goud, and his friends were caught on camera at Kadgal toll plaza, about 80 km from Hyderabad. One of them was seen brandishing a knife at an injured...

The Uttar Pradesh government has revoked its decision to provide a dedicated corridor at toll plazas for lawmakers in case of traffic snarls, after drawing flak from the opposition.

Angry that he had to queue up at the highways toll plaza, a BJP lawmaker in Karnataka allegedly manhandled the toll booth manager who tried to pacify him. B Suresh Gowda, the BJP's lawmaker from Tumkur Rural seat, was livid that the Kyathasandra toll plaza in Tumkur district did not have a separate lane for VIPs like him.