AGARTALA, Jan 6 (TIWN): State Police fails to understand that not awareness, but public will fall in line, when rules are enforced strictly in a State. “…In India Police are rarely feared, which boosts the crime rate…….”, it was claimed by Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy in Police Accountability programme in the presence of DGP K Nagraj, but all the suggestion given by experts remains without any affect to the Police-Chief of Tripura. Tripura police is more concerned in observing Prayas-meeting, blood donation camps, cycle race---- rather than taking serious actions to minimize the traffic accidents. Whereas due to traffic dept’s negligence, pathetic roadway everyday people are dying here, but on the other hand police are now busy to celebrate “Roads-safety week-2017” across the state.

To conduct a colourful programme at Astabol field, which will project state’s achievement to the centre, from the early morning on Friday amidst heavy fogs the traffic police are preparing parade at there, which will be held on Jan 11 to January 17, in the presence of State heads.

Tripura DGP K Nagraj on Dec 14 said, ‘It’s important to reveal the actually of crime rate as in various media it was uploaded that crime rate is increasing in Tripura’. ‘I will say crime rate has drastically downed in Tripura & it’s going back to the average percentage of 2006. We have surveyed on various states crime rates and gathered data to find out where Tripura stands in crime rate. In accident cases there is a 25 % decreasing rate and in last 2 years no Extremist threat was found”.  However Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy in the same programme as part of reply to Nagraj said, “……the crime rate doesn’t matters on the social aspects, but it depends fully up to the police”. 

Infact the beginning of the year 2017 has witnessed bundles of incidents. Atleast 3 people have died in accident in last 6 days in Tripura.

Jan-4-2017 : 1 killed, 7 injured and 3 left are in critical condition at Silchar Hospital after an auto was coiled with a 12 wheeler truck at Dharmanagar-Churaibari road on last Wednesday. The accident held on the National Highway when an auto bearing number : TR052429 hit by the truck numbered :AS11AC3841. All of a sudden the hapless people sitting inside the auto became critically injured among them the drived died on the spot. The driver has been identified as Uttam Debnath (34).

Jan-5-2017: 2 persons died in a road accident at Amtali just on Thursday. The accident held when a scooty was collided with a huge truck at 2 PM. Debashish Debbarma & Ganguli Debbarma are the two hapless deceases have been identified who died in that fatal accident.  Amtali poice said, “…The Truck bearing No.TR-01-B-1916 while proceeding towards Bishalgarh dashed one Scooty(bearing No.TR-07-9460) on its back at Amtali near SBI Bank. As a result rider of Scooty namely Debasish Debbarma (22), S/O Hiralal Debbarma of Pailabanga, PS-Takarjala and pillion rider namely Ganguli Debbarma S/O Mangal Debbarma of do sustained grievous injuries on their person and was shifted to TMC hospital where both the injured persons were declared as brought dead. On this information Amtali PS staff visited the place of occurrence. A specific case is being registered in this regard”.

However, Tripura police will celebrate Road-safety-week to aware the people, but how far accident rate will be diminished it’s to be seen.