New Delhi: While the commuters on Friday faced severe traffic issues at the Delhi-Gurgaon border, the Delhi and Gurgoan police were engaged in holding each other accountable over the issue on social media site Twitter. All this took place after heavy rain lashed the national capital and the NCR region, which forced the police of both the states to argue over jurisdiction.
All this played out on Friday at around 7 pm when a commuter, who claimed to be stuck for one hour at NH 48, tweeted by tagging Delhi police’s official handle. Birender Kumar Singh wrote: “@gurgaonpolice @dtptraffic stuck for last one hour at NH 48 in front of Ambience mall. Please help.”
Replying to the tweet, the Delhi traffic police said that the area was out of their jurisdiction and complaint was forwarded to Gurugram police. “Thanks, matter is out of Delhi police jurisdiction so your complaint is being forwarded to @gurgaonpolice for taking necessary action,” tweeted the Delhi police.
When the ball was put into the court of Gurgoan police, they immediately passed it to the Delhi police with the tweet: “@dtptraffic Plz clear your traffic over rajokri flyover. This is resulting in serious traffic congestion in Gurugram.” This sort of blame game annoyed many Twitter users who were perhaps getting late for their other work. One such, Sunil Issar, tweeted: “Lovely table tennis between 2 police teams who should be interdependent on each other.” Another user, CA, wrote: “@dtptraffic how u know his location & decide on jurisdiction from your twitter account? This NH8 mess occurs every single day.”
Meanwhile, both the state police were quite active in cyberspace but none of them was seen on the ground. “I was stuck at the NH 48 in front of Ambience mall for around 2 hours in the Delhi-Gurgoan border after I left my office at Cybercity. There was no sign of Delhi or Gurgaon police at the site. And the main reason was the toll collectors of MCD who were not doing their job systematically,” said Bharti Raturi, a private bank employee in Gurugram who is a resident of Tilak Vihar in Delhi.
