The brief clip confirmed the Zomato supply agent arriving on horseback in Hyderabad
Hyderabad:
At a time when lengthy queues at petrol pumps have been seen in Hyderabad amid a protest by truck drivers towards the brand new hit-and-run regulation, a video displaying a person galloping on the streets of the town carrying a bag with Zomato’s emblem has gone viral. The brief clip confirmed the Zomato supply agent arriving on horseback at Chanchalguda, situated subsequent to the Imperial Lodge.
The person was seen waving to the general public on the streets as he arrived on a horseback after lengthy queues and the closure of petrol pumps as a fallout of the truckers’ protest.
When petrol bunks ran out of gasoline in #Hyderabad, @zomato supply arrived on horseback … at Chanchalguda, subsequent to Imperial Lodge… after lengthy, lengthy queues & closure of petrol pumps as a fallout of #TruckersStrike over #NewLaw on hit-and-run accidents @ndtv@ndtvindiapic.twitter.com/bYLT5BuvQh
— Uma Sudhir (@umasudhir) January 3, 2024
Within the video, the supply agent could possibly be heard speaking to a passerby that he opted to reach on horseback to ship the meals after the pumps ran out of petrol.
Requested what had occurred, the horse-rider responded, ”Petrol nahi mila bhai. Teen ghante line me khada raha. Zomato se nikal gaya..petrol nahi mila.(There was no petrol. I waited within the queue for 3 hours. I left after taking the order however could not get the petrol).
Lengthy queues spilled over to the principle roads in Hyderabad on Tuesday as numerous motorists gathered on the gasoline shops for petrol and diesel in Hyderabad, leading to site visitors jams at a number of locations for a while, information company PTI reported. The site visitors jam was introduced beneath management by night, police officers stated.
”(Gas) availability is there. Persons are apprehensive that because of the agitation by truck drivers, it is probably not obtainable and they’re going to petrol pumps in massive numbers, following which queues have been shaped and subsequently spilled over to the roads leading to site visitors jams initially,” a senior police official advised PTI.
A petroleum retail outlet proprietor advised a TV channel that gasoline provide to petrol pumps within the metropolis was certainly hit by to the truck drivers’ protest since Monday.
Barricades have been additionally seen at some petrol pumps within the metropolis whilst some motorists complained that they have been unable to fill gasoline of their autos as among the shops have been ”closed” and resulting from which they confronted issues.
Truck Drivers’ Finish Protest
The countrywide truckers’ stir has been known as off as the federal government assured that it will seek the advice of stakeholders earlier than implementing a contentious regulation towards hit-and-run. After lengthy talks with the federal government, the All-India Motor Transport Congress known as off the agitation.
The protest was over Part 106(2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita or BNS — which is ready to interchange the colonial-era Indian Penal Code — which had provisions for strict penalties in hit-and-run instances.
Beneath the brand new regulation, hit-and-run instances can entice as much as 10 years in jail and a high quality of ₹ 7 lakh — towards the present penalty of as much as a two-year jail time period and a lighter high quality. The utmost punishment of 10 years will kick in when the offender has brought on dying via rash driving and decamped with out reporting the matter to the police.
The truckers, cab drivers, and others working industrial autos are questioning how they might pay such a steep high quality in case they meet with an accident.