Amruta Fadnavis asks Mumbai Police to withdraw traffic clearance vehicle

The upgrade to Y+ with escort category comes with the security of an escort vehicle and five policemen round the clock. The ‘traffic clearance vehicle’ performs duties similar to a pilot vehicle, clearing traffic for the assignee during travel.

Maharashtra Home Department allotted a ‘traffic clearance vehicle’ along with a security upgrade from X to Y+ with escort to Amruta Fadnavis, wife of Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis. (File photo)

Amruta Fadnavis, wife of Devendra Fadnavis, Deputy Chief Minister, who also holds the charge of the Home Department, requested the Mumbai Police on Wednesday to withdraw the traffic clearance vehicle provided to her as part of her security detail.

Fadnavis’s request came after The Indian Express reported on Wednesday that the State Intelligence Department, which reports to the Maharashtra Home Department, recently allotted a ‘traffic clearance vehicle’ along with an upgrade from X to Y+ with escort to Amruta Fadnavis.

“I’m & wish to live like common citizen of #Mumbai. I humbly request @MumbaiPolice not to provide me traffic clearance pilot vehicle. Traffic condition in Mumbai is frustrating but I’m sure, with Infra & development projects by @mieknathshinde & @Dev_Fadnavis we will soon get relief,” Amruta Fadnavis said in a tweet on Wednesday.

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The upgrade to Y+ with escort category comes with the security of an escort vehicle and five policemen round the clock. The ‘traffic clearance vehicle’ performs duties similar to a pilot vehicle, clearing traffic for the assignee during her travel.

I’m & wish to live like common citizen of #Mumbai
I humbly request @MumbaiPolice not to provide me traffic clearance pilot vehicle
Traffic condition in Mumbai is frustrating but I’m sure,with Infra & development projects by @mieknathshinde & @Dev_Fadnavis we will soon get relief https://t.co/ym2wTodt6D

— AMRUTA FADNAVIS (@fadnavis_amruta) November 2, 2022

While police sources said the Protection and Security Department of the Mumbai Police forwarded necessary instructions to traffic authorities, Amruta Fadnavis is yet to use the newly-allotted traffic clearance vehicle.

When asked about the upgrade, Devendra Fadnavis had told The Indian Express, “Mrs Fadnavis has not applied for any security upgrade. Based on threat perception, the high-power committee has given the security. The traffic clearance vehicle has also not been applied for. Amruta has specifically told the police that she doesn’t require a traffic clearance vehicle.”

“I am told that such traffic clearance vehicles were provided to the entire Thackeray family and many more private individuals in the past. It is not about the post but about the threat perception; so there are people who are not even MLAs and are given Z or Z+,” he had said.

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