Transport Secy in a soup over tinted windshield
Sunday, 05/08/2012
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Punjab Transport Secretary Mandeep Singh, who zoomed into Jalandhar in his official Toyota Corolla on Saturday, was put in a spot because of the jet black tinted glasses on his luxury car.
He was in the city for a function when media corps cornered him for this despite Supreme Court orders against the use of any kind of such films on the cars, the Transport Secretary nonchalantly defended, “The glasses are tinted within the permissible limit”.
The apex court’s directive of July 4 was categorical. It said, “We prohibit the use of black films of any visual light transmission (VLT) percentage or any other material upon the safety glasses, windscreens (front and rear) and side glasses of all vehicles throughout the country.”
To avoid further embarrassment, the car bearing number PB-21-C-0001 was whisked away to a workshop of Punjab Roadways and the films were peeled off from the car’s glasses by the driver and another person. By the time the media could locate the car, the job had been done and the driver was cleaning the car. He hid the cleaning cloth when the reporters reached.
The film was seen dumped behind the scrap of the workshop. When asked when was he told to remove the film, the driver only said, “There is no film on the glasses of the car. You can check it”.
When Transport Minister Ajit Singh’s attention was drawn to this, the minister who was also attending the function, said, “You look at my car it is fine. We have lots of responsibilities and at times sit in the cars without checking such things. Even I once sat in a car with tinted glasses. If the officer’s car has the filming, it won’t be there next time”. The windscreens on the minister’s official Toyota Camry car (PB-65-H-9081) were perfectly in order.
