Motor Vehicles Act: UP police finding themselves in a sticky situation

After they started slapping stringent penalties on offenders under the amended Motor Vehicles Act, the police in Uttar Pradesh are finding themselves in a sticky situation. There have been many instances when the aam janta has filmed police persons flouting traffic rules and posted them online. There are also videos of alleged extortion. To preempt such cases, UP DGP O P Singh has announced that cops found breaching traffic rules would be fined twice the amount applicable as penalty. Traffic policemen have been directed not to "harass" people in the guise of checking vehicles; they must stop vehicles only when