An argument has erupted after an internet automotive buying and selling platform floated a ship on the waterlogged roads of Gurugram. An organization official claimed on social media that the police not solely impounded the boat but additionally imposed a superb of Rs 50,000 on the corporate for violating laws.
Nevertheless, the site visitors police denied taking any such motion. When contacted, ACP Visitors Satyapal Yadav stated that the Gurugram Visitors Police had no function within the matter.
“We’ve got acquired no complaints on this regard, nor have we issued any challans. It can not even be stated whether or not the picture circulating on social media is from this yr or not,” ACP Yadav added.
The matter got here to mild when Prachi Sharma, the corporate’s Head of Model and Communications, shared a publish about it on her LinkedIn account. Posting an image of the boat, she wrote, “Subject a challan to the one liable for the waterlogging as properly.”
Prachi acknowledged that the corporate had launched a ship into the water on Saturday to poke enjoyable on the waterlogging on Gurugram’s roads and the administration’s failure to deal with the difficulty. Nevertheless, she claimed that the police arrived inside minutes and fined the corporate Rs 50,000.
“Rs 50,000. That’s what it price us to interrupt the legislation in Gurgaon final week. The crime: a ship. The situation: a street. The street: a river. We put a Cars24 boat within the water as a joke concerning the rain. The challan arrived in seconds. The flooding has been arriving for years, and has by no means price anybody something. Then it received worse. Folks began getting in to get residence as a result of rowing was the quickest manner throughout. A joke stops being humorous the second it turns into a commute,” Prachi Sharma wrote in her publish.
“We’ve got paid for the boat. We can pay the challan once more (if we’re required to take the boat out this week as properly to assist individuals, apparently). Nonetheless ready for somebody to be billed for the water and sincerely hoping this does seize the best eyeballs. Does your metropolis flood like this as properly?” she added.
Regardless of a number of makes an attempt, Prachi Sharma couldn’t be contacted. A senior police officer stated that solely the social media handler who went viral with the publish may make clear the details behind it.
Cars24 points assertion
Cars24 issued an official assertion and apologised to the Gurugram Administration, Gurugram police and all authorities involved for the act.
“In mild of the discussions surrounding our current Gurugram flooding publish, we want to make clear that the Rs 50,000 determine talked about within the communication was not a site visitors challan, and no challan was issued in reference to the exercise by any police authority. The quantity referred to the price concerned in executing the advertising activation.”
“The publish was created as a light-hearted advertising activation in response to the flooding scenario in Gurugram. We perceive that taking a ship out on a public street isn’t secure, and the exercise was by no means supposed to encourage or promote such behaviour. It was by no means our intention to trigger any misunderstanding relating to the function, tasks, or actions of the Gurugram Administration or the Police,” the assertion learn.
“We sincerely and unreservedly apologise to the Gurugram Administration, the Gurugram Police, and all involved authorities. We acknowledge that the style during which this marketing campaign was executed was irresponsible and resulted in confusion by wrongly attributing an enforcement motion to the Police that by no means happened. We take full accountability for this lapse and deeply remorse the unwarranted criticism and inconvenience precipitated to the authorities as a consequence.”
“We additionally sincerely apologise to the general public and everybody who was misled or offended by the publish and the following conversations. Our intention was solely to create a second of humour round a troublesome scenario that many residents have been experiencing, and by no means to trigger offence or disrespect to the Police, the Authorities, or any public establishment,” the assertion added.
