Bhopal:

Two staff of a toll plaza in Madhya Pradesh fell right into a effectively and drowned as they had been operating to avoid wasting themselves throughout an assault by masked gunmen, allegedly over a toll tax dispute. The our bodies of Agra’s Srinivas Parihar and Nagpur’s Shivaji Kandele had been recovered from the effectively yesterday.

The incident, police have stated, happened round 10 pm on Tuesday. Chilling footage from CCTV cameras at Dagrai toll plaza on Nationwide Freeway – 44 present masked males on 4 bikes trip close to the toll cubicles. They then begin kicking on the doorways of toll counters and a few handle to enter the cubicles. The assailants are seen damaging computer systems, beating up the toll plaza workers and attempting to pull them out.

The workers, it’s learnt, bumped into the adjoining area to avoid wasting their lives when the assailants began firing within the air. As they ran, Parihar and Kandele fell into an uncovered effectively proper behind the workplace and drowned.

The contract of the toll plaza between Jhansi and Gwalior modified on April 1, and it handed on to a brand new contractor. Some locals, it’s learnt, had an understanding with the earlier contractor and their autos allegedly cleared the toll sales space with out fee. The brand new contractor refused to play ball. This sparked a dispute and Tuesday evening’s assault was deliberate to terrorise the brand new contractor, say studies.

A officer stated a case has been registered towards unidentified individuals and probe is on.

Toll tax is a cost car house owners must pay for utilizing some expressways, tunnels, bridges and so forth. The quantity is used for restore and upkeep. The costs differ relying on the dimensions of the car.