‘Also, police sitting in judgment on the issues cited by applicants’
Technical glitches haunt the Telangana police website as users of ePass find it difficult to log in and negotiate the process to submit their emergency applications.
While police have made it mandatory to furnish e-pass for inter- and intra-State commute, they have not provided a hassle-free mechanism to obtain such passes which has been mandated by it. The website is down more often than not.
Many applicants have complained that for most of the day the website is slow due to server problems, and in case if they were lucky enough to complete the form, the error page pops up after submitting the application. This forces the applicants to repeat the whole process.
Express News Service
HYDERABAD: Applying for an e-pass from the Telangana police department for travel is getting increasingly difficult for many. The police are also rejecting several e-pass applications citing lack of supporting documents. This concern is not just prevalent in the rural areas, but also in the city, where people are finding it hard to even log into the website, as it is down more often than not. Officials managing the portal said that the website was slowing down due to heavy traffic, and claimed that this issue would be rectified soon.
Tollywood actor Nikhil Siddhartha was one of the many people who could not apply for the e-pass as the “server was down”. He was stopped by the police while he was on his way to deliver medicines to a patient at KIMS Hospital. Despite showing them the medicines and the prescription, the police did not let him go through.
Nikhil Siddhartha took to Twitter to share that he was stopped by police officials while he was on his way to deliver lifesaving medicines to a patient. He was asked to apply for E-pass in Hyderabad.