THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, Nov 30: Roads and their flanks are to be free of the construction material of the residents and any debris resulting from the dismantling of an individual property.
Houses and shops are being built where construction materials and debris too occupy the portion of the road or its flanks.
Medininagar Municipal Corporation (MMC) is very strict with this. City Mission Manager Satish Kumar said quite recently a long stretch of the busy road was cleared of material and debris.
However, in a freak incident a 60-year-old man, guard by profession and identified as Mukhram Dubey of Purabdeeha village had a fatal hit by a motorist on the road on the intervening night of November 28/29 where a huge mound of sand was dumped.
The death of the guard caused intense protest where the protesters were openly abusing the officials of the Medininagar Municipal Corporation.
The contention was that the accident occurred because a mound of sand on the road hastened the collision.
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No mention of sand mound in FIR by deceased’s son
However, when the deceased’s son Anup Kr Dubey lodged the FIR with the town police station on November 29, he just wrote about a particular motorcycle number which had hit his father Mukhram who finally succumbed to the injuries.
Anup did not even remotely mention the mound of sand lying in the road or hastening this fatal accident.
The angry and abusive protest was over the sand in the road but sand is conspicuously missing in the FIR. It’s all a road accident.
Municipality serves notice
The Medininagar Municipal Corporation didn’t sit idle. It just came on the scene. It served notice to one Vinod Singh under section 600 of the 2011 Jharkhand Municipal Act. The mound of sand in the road is stated to be of Vinod Singh.
Section 600 reads that a resident is liable for action if the person contravenes the provisions of the municipal act.
City Manager Samita Bhagat told this correspondent, “Notice has been served under section 600 for contravening to the provisions of the municipal act and section 606 for disrupting the traffic.”
MMC City Commissioner Md Jawed Hussain said there is a provision of penalty to the tune of Rs 25,000 under section 600 where contravention to the provisions of the municipal act is established.
