Parking mafia: Complaints about parking mafia increase in Kolkata ahead of festive season

Complaints against parking mafia from Alipore, Short St

Kolkata: With the festive season just around the corner, parking mafia seems to be playing a cat and mouse game with officers. Two new complaints against parking extortion are from the intersection of Wood Street-Short Street and Alipore Barely hours after police officers issued a warning to a parking attendant in south Kolkata for allegedly asking a motorist for extra money on Park Street.
Srinjoy Sen (28), a travel agent living in Tollygunge Swiss Park, complained to Shakespeare Sarani police station that he was being overcharged for parking at the Wood Street-Short Street junction. This was Sen’s third complaint of parking extortion in central Kolkata.
Tanmoy Chatterjee, an executive of a private company, took to social media to complain about the excessive parking at Alipore, close to Bhawani Bhawan. “Is the parking charges of Alipore DSR II office (Bhawani Bhawan) fixed at Rs. 50 per car per hour acceptable and legal??? Without parking lane?” he wrote on Facebook. He tagged the Kolkata Police and Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim took office.
Shakespeare Sarani police said that they have received the complaint and its investigation can be converted into an FIR and the extortion departments will be given a blow. A general diary has now been made.

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