Traders lock EO of Pilibhit municipal council inside Transport Nagar campus

Pilibhit: Local traders on Wednesday locked a four-member team of Pilibhit Municipal Council, headed by its executive officer (EO) Nisha Mishra, inside Transport Nagar campus in a bid to protest against the raid conducted by her at Transport Nagar to unearth the stock of polythene bags of the prohibited category.

The EO had conducted the raid in compliance with the order passed by district magistrate Vaibhav Shrivastav prohibiting the sale and use of polythene bags with thickness below 50 microns.

According to Mishra, she recovered a huge stock of polythene bags during her raid at Vikram Transport Company on Wednesday. The traders and transporters grew aggressive as soon as she started the confiscation procedure. When a transporter, identified as Ria Suri, started shouting at the team, one Anshul Jaiswar, associated with the company, locked the gate of Transport Nagar campus from outside, she added.

EO Mishra informed city magistrate Arun Singh who then sent a police team of Pilibhit Kotwali police station, headed by SHO Shri Kant Dwivedi, that managed to rescue the EO and other officials.

SHO Dwivedi said that following a written complaint of the EO, police have booked Ria Suri, Anshul Jaiswar, his father and the proprietor of Vikram Transport Company Vikram Jaiswar and one trader Anubhav under IPC sections 147 (rioting), 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant), 269 (unlawful or negligent act likely to spread the infection of any disease dangerous to life), 270 (malignant act likely to spread the infection of any disease dangerous to life), 342 (wrongful confinement), 353 (assaults or use of criminal force to any person being a public servant in the execution of his duty), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke the breach of peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation).

He further said that of the four who have been booked, Ria Suri and Anshul Jaiswar were taken into custody.