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Karnataka State Bakeries, Condiments & Small Entrepreneurs Association (KSBCSEA) has connected Wednesday submitted a petition to the Home Minister G. Parameshwara, demanding for immediate enactment against petty rowdies posing arsenic BBMP cadres oregon civic enforcement representatives, and harass and intimidate tiny concern owners nether mendacious their authority.
The memorandum said galore fraudsters were impersonating BBMP officials, appraisal officers, Crime Branch officials, GST officials, and officers of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
The memorandum urged the authorities to support tiny entrepreneurs and extremity unlawful coercion successful the sanction of civic enforcement
Instead of apprehending specified impostors, the police, who are portion of our extortion system, were engaged seizing cigarettes from bakeries, condiment shops, beeda shops, and different tiny traders, it alleged, adding that the constabulary asked the traders to travel to the constabulary station, wage a good of ₹5,000 to ₹10,000, and instrumentality backmost their seized goods.
The relation demanded a implicit prohibition connected cigarettes and baccy products successful the state.
KSBCSEA, president, D.B. Pratap Shetty, condemned the constabulary harassment of bakery owners and tiny traders and the seizure of cigarettes from their shops.
“These tiny concern owners are uncovering it progressively hard to tally their businesses, and connected apical of that, harassment by petty rowdies is expanding time by day. If the constabulary indispensable instrumentality action, they should enactment against fraudsters and cigarette manufacturers,’’ helium insisted.
