Kolkata: Weeks after Kolkata Police
issued a notification stating that no petrol would be sold to motorcyclists not
wearing a helmet at petrol pumps, a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader allegedly
threatened a petrol pump employee to bring down the place when he was denied
fuel for not wearing a helmet.
The incident took place on Tuesday at
Bottala Chowk area in West Medinipur district when TMC Yuva leader Saurav Basu
came to a petrol pump on a motorcycle without helmet and was subsequently
denied service. Following this, the petrol pump employee said he was pushed
around by Basu and threatened.
“We have been asked not to sell
petrol to anyone without helmet. I told him so and he got flared up. He said
‘We make rules. What rules are you showing me?’,” the employee told reporters.
When the employee insisted that he
had been instructed by his employer not to sell petrol to anyone who comes
without a helmet, the leader allegedly said, “If 50 boys come and vandalize
this place, who will save you? Will your employer save you? Tell your employee
my name and that I have said so. I will break this place at night. I will see
who dares to stop me?”
“He pushed me, and threatened to shut
down the place using foul language,” the man said, adding that CCTV footage
bore evidence to his allegations.
Basu, later, admitted going to the
petrol pump but denied the employee’s allegation of threatening him. “I had
requested him to give me some fuel as my vehicle had run out of it. He was in
an inebriated state and misbehaved with me,” Basu maintained.
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