For a fee, at the several illegal parking lots.

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has refused to look into the problem and has blamed the Kolkata Traffic Department for the mismanagement.

"The civic body is no longer responsible for the illegal parking lots. We have handed over the charge to Kolkata Traffic police department in September. They will look into the matter from now on.

We are not collecting any fee," said the assistant manager of the car parking department of KMC, Biswajit Mitra.

However, the deputy commissioner of traffic, Manoj Verma, said: "The civic body's role in the entire car parking system is full of loopholes. Why did they stop us from prosecuting cars in the New Market area in the first week of September? Officials from the traffic department had gone to penalise vehicles parked around New Market on September 1. The KMC had asked our officials not to do so."