Driver turns Doctor in Indian hospital

As per a report:

Lucknow: In yet another shocking case of medical negligence in Uttar Pradesh, a driver employed with a government hospital in Fatehpur district was seen assisting a doctor performing a major surgery in an operation theatre. Read full story here at Driver turns Doctor in Indian hospital

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Ramalinga Raju made gardeners, drivers kings

HYDERABAD: In disgraced Satyam boss Ramalinga Raju’s land, even gardeners were made maharajas! Several gardeners, truck drivers and others, who were working in the mango gardens and orchards, belonging to Raju brothers, for meagre salaries of Rs 4,000 to Rs 5,000 per month, have been found to possess more than 50 acres of land worth crores of rupees. Read More................Ramalinga Raju made gardeners, drivers kings

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Driver abducts excise officials to evade toll tax

Rajpura: A man allegedly tried to abduct two excise officers when he was being asked for a toll tax at a check post in this Punjab town, police said.

The driver of a Swift car sped away, along with two Excise and Taxation officials, to escape paying tax at the toll barrier in Patiala's Rajpura, around 35 km from the state capital Chandigarh. Read More................Driver abducts excise officials to evade toll tax

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US tourist hitches rickshaw, weds driver

A 26-year-old American tourist travelling in India hitched a ride in a rickshaw last week and married the driver a few days later, a report said today.

Whitney from Chicago met her prince charming in Jaipur in Rajasthan, a state west of the capital famous for its stately palaces, after hailing a motorised rickshaw and hiring the driver for her stay in the city, the Mail Today newspaper said. Read More................US tourist hitches rickshaw, weds driver

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Love-struck driver kisses girl in public

This incident happenned in Chennai city in Tamil Nadu state of India. His was a love at first sight. But when it went unrequited, autorickshaw driver Murugan (28) tried something cinematic — he stopped the 20-year-old girl in the middle of the road near Madipakkam and kissed her in full public glare. Read more....................................Love-struck driver kisses girl in public, held

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Driver roams with body in ambulance for five days

A driver with a private hospital roamed the city's roads in New Delhi the capital city of India for five days with the body of a domestic help packed in ice in his ambulance, for a princely sum of Rs 2,000 a day.

The domestic help, Shanti Devi, hailing from Jharkhand state of India and was working with Rani Bagh resident C. P. Sabharwal for the past five years, was said to have died on February 16 due to tuberculosis.

According to the police, she died February 16 and Sabharwal hired an ambulance from a private nursing home in Hari Nagar, west Delhi, to preserve her body in ice. He paid the driver Rajinder Rs 2,000 a day to take the body around in the ambulance. Sabharwal reportedly informed the woman's family of her death only February 19. Read more...................................Driver roams with body in ambulance for five days

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'Drunk' driver manages Delhi's traffic

Can a person convicted for drunken driving assist police in managing the Delhi's traffic? Yes, a court in New Delhi has been sentenced to assist the police in managing the Delhi's traffic for 10 days. On Sunday, he donned the mantle of a traffic cop even as legal experts questioned the legality of the court ruling.

"Deepak Gupta", a resident of south Delhi, was convicted on June 4 by Metropolitan Magistrate Gautam Manan for driving in an inebriated state without license in Mayapuri in west Delhi on Feb 16.

On Sunday, Gupta reached the Kalkaji roundabout at 10 a.m. and sought the day's assignment from the traffic cops present there.

A couple of hours later, after successfully flagging down quite a few red light offenders, Gupta told reporters that he felt sorry that he had violated traffic rules and realizes how difficult it is to manage traffic.

Constitutional expert and senior Supreme Court advocate P.P. Rao said: 'The novel judgment on punishment has left me wondering if we are heading to a system of 'quasi justice'.'

'A court is not al all empowered to impose such discretionary sentences which have not been provided by the parliament or legislature in the relevant laws. This would lead to courts resorting to unguided discretion in imposing sentences and it would mitigate the rule of law,' said Rao.

'On the face of it, the sentence is illegal. No court is empowered to impose a punishment which is not prescribed by the legislature,' added Kumar.

Delhi Police too appeared baffled by the sentencing of the court.

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Train driver asks passengers to push it

If you are going with your family in your car & car just stops on the road, there are chances that your family members may have to push the car for some time to put in on the roadside or to get it restarted. If same thing happens while you are in a Cab / Taxi, then you shall certainly get annoyed with the Cab driver if he asks for such favor from you. But just think if you are traveling in a Train & its driver asks all the passengers to get down & push the Train, what shall be your reaction!!!!!!

Exactly same has happened with rail passengers in Bihar state of India where driver of their train asked them to get out of the train and push it. Incidentally such incident happened in a state from which "Mr. Laloo Prasad Yadav", the "Indian Railway Minster" hails from.

It took more than half an hour of the pushing effort of all the passengers to move the stalled electric train 12 feet (four meters) so that it touched live overhead wires and was able to resume its journey.

The incident occurred after a passenger pulled the train’s emergency chain and it halted in a "neutral zone", a short length of track where there is no power in the overhead wires.

“In so many years of service in the railways, I have never come across such a bizarre incident,” said Deepak Kumar Jha, a spokesman for Indian Railways. A train’s momentum usually allows it to continue moving through neutral zones.

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