Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Jan 7: The Sumo drivers today alleged that the illegal and stray sumo stands were coming up at Pantha Chowk from where they operate to other parts of Kashmir.
Scores of Sumo drivers appeared in Partap Park Press Enclave and were seen raising slogans urging the authorities to take necessary action and ensure that the money which these sumo stands are collecting from the concerned is accounted for.
“We do not know on what basis they are collecting the money. We are being asked to deposit money to make us operate towards south Kashmir,” the president of the Union said.
He said that these illegal stands are operating from SDA land without any allotment. “We protested earlier as well, but there was no action, rather we were threatened.”
The Sumo drivers said that they are operating with the help of police and other civil administration officers. “The mafias are doing everything to drag us into cases and are making our survival hard,” they said. Click here to watch video
The Sumo drivers said that if the SDA has allotted land, then the same has to be demarcated so that the concerned know what it is all about. “If it is all illegal, then the same needs to be stopped without immediate effect.”
They alleged that it is a mafia that needs to be busted. “They are influential and we are being threatened every day.”
The Sumo drivers expressed hope that the administration will take note of it and it needs to be ascertained who collected the money and where did it all go.
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