Seized vehicles rusting with police

​Hyderabad: Several thousands of vehicles, both two-wheeler and four-wheeler, are gathering rust at Goshamahal stadium after the police dumped them.

The police seize dozens of vehicles right from motorcycles to heavy trucks everyday in connection with one case or the other under the limits of 108 police stations in Hyderabad and Cyberabad Commissionerates.

These vehicles are left in the open at the police stations. The seized vehicles left outside the police stations are sometimes hinder free flow of traffic also.

Once dumped at the police station, the police seldom take care of these vehicles. They are exposed to the vagaries of the nature and they gather rust within short period.

The nimble-fingered gentry lift the spare parts of these vehicles if not the vehicle itself. The police, who are supposed to take care of the vehicles till the case is completed in the judicial court, leave them to their fate.

As per the rules, all these vehicles should be auctioned every three months. But auctions are never conducted for reasons better known to the higher officials.

There is hardly any coordination between the departments of the Transport and the police leaving the vehicles in ruins.

The higher officials took a decision sometime ago and shifted all the seized vehicles from the sixty police stations to the Goshamahal stadium.

Vehicles worth right from a few thousands of rupees to lakhs of rupees are languishing in the stadium. A number of valuable cars are seen gathering rust in the Goshamahal stadium with spare parts and tyres of these vehicles stolen.

However, once the officials give green signal for auctioning of the vehicles, a number of brokers come out of the blue and try to pocket them at throwaway price.

There are allegations against some officials that some good vehicles are being auctioned by showing it as scrap.

Why the owners of the vehicles are taking back their vehicles? Once the case is booked, the judicial court has to complete the trial and give a clearance certificate to the vehicle owner.

However, due to the inordinate delay in completing the trial, the vehicles are left with the police.

A visit to any police station would reveal the fact that a number of damaged vehicles are parked in front of these stations.

The station house officers say that they are compelled to keep the vehicles on the road since there is hardly any parking space.

Be it Malakpet, Chaderghat, SR Nagar or any other station in the city, one could witness a number of vehicles parked in the middle of the road.

There are instances, people met with accidents due to these illegally parked vehicles.

The police have to either auction the vehicles or take care of them instead of leaving them to the vagaries of nature.

By: K Praveen Kumar