hanish’s blunder and the price he paid for it
February 10th, 2007
Mohammed Hanish is an ordinary guy (aged 26) living in Trivandrum. A simple blunder on thursday has turned his life upside down.
He was driving to his house from trivandrum city. Suddenly he saw a state car overtaking him and going at high speed. He thought - “I will follow the car and I can get around the traffic jam”. So he followed the state car matching its speed. Unfortunately for him Karyavattom police took notice and caught him near Kazhakkoottam.
His crime? - Following Mr. Achuthanandan, our Chief minister. He was arrested and a case was registered against him for overspeeding. He was also subjected to medical tests (?) and then subjected to couselling as well.
Now here is my question. Why police arrested Hanish only? Chief minister’s car was also overspeeding right? Is it that traffic rules are not applicable to some? What if somone goes under Chief minister’s car? Is it ok for someone to die in accident if it is due to a VIP’s car?
I guess in democracy, for some questions there are no answers.
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February 11th, 2007 at 5:15 am
Well If i were to quote George Orwell from Animal Farm. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
February 11th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Usually, when state ministers or chief minister travel, there will be a pilot car and police security cars following them. This is an indicator for others to give way for the VIP to travel. Here, Mr.Hanish has not reported to have seen any such pilot or security cars. This would mean that our chief minister wanted to travel annonymously. He should not have done like that. The police should never have harassed Mr.Hanish. But who is there to bell the cat? — chandrakumar
February 12th, 2007 at 3:19 am
Two wrongs dont make a right. Overspeeding is never right. Karunakaran used to have a benz which took him at 100kmph all the time. He nearly paid the price.
From my personal experience of driving along the Karyavattom/Kazhakuttam, I would advice Hanish or anyone else to drive very very slowly along these roads as maximum accidents occur along these roads. Besides the KSRTC buses come at breakneck spees along these roads. Let the CM drive at 200mph. We dont care. We just need to drive carefully and slowly.
April 3rd, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Mohammed Hanish is driving in Kerala and not in any county in UK. That is his misfortune. Here even a senior police Inspector can be arrested and taken to court or fined, if found breaking the traffic laws. There are many such cases.
I have first hand experience of a minister’s car overtaking our car ( while travelling to Cochi Airport this February) and the tooting of the horn and flashing of the light frieghtened the life out of us.
I am originally from Kerala and I love the place. However we need to learn a lot from countries like UK, as far as driving is concerned. If a UK minister’s car is caught speeding it will be headline news here! These people are supposed to abide the laws by example!
CRK
January 31st, 2008 at 3:41 pm
its funny to see that we r with those who complaints about the speeding of VIPs aswell as their tardiness :p … hey guys they are having a busy schedule
May 26th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
If they have busy schedule, let them go by plane or helicopter, why cause havoc to the general public?