Kathmandu, August 7
Traffic police have taken action against 12,749 taxi drivers in Kathmandu Valley in a span of one year for cheating passengers on various pretexts.
A team from Metropolitan Traffic Police Division slapped action against the taxi drivers for arbitrarily charging non-metred fare and tampering with the device in the fiscal year 2018/19. The Traffic Division had taken action against 8,120 taxi drivers in the previous fiscal year.
SSP Basanta Kumar Panta, chief of the division, shares that action was taken against those who cheated passengers with high fare. “Every day, 40-50 taxi drivers defrauding passengers are facing music,” he adds.
Traffic police make a defrauding driver pay a fine of Rs 3,000. According to the division, it recommends the Transport Management Department to suspend licence of the taxi driver who faced action for charging high fare to passengers over five times.
Likewise, traffic police penalise taxi drivers with Rs 500 to Rs 1,500 fine for denying to operate the fare metre and tampering with it.
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