The “parking lot” adjacent to AMRI Hospitals in JC Block where a man was seen distributing parking slips. Picture by Bishwarup DuttaMen posing as parking attendants are collecting fees from vehicles parked in lanes and on vacant plots in Salt Lake that are not designated as parking zones, civic officials said. “These men are not authorised by the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation to collect parking fees,” an official in the civic body said. All of them said men posing as parking attendants were forcing them to cough up money. Partha Bhattacharya, a resident of HA Block who at times parks his car on the plot, said the “parking attendants” had been charging Rs 20 an hour.

Source: The Telegraph April 30, 2019 20:15 UTC