AP Police: Hyderabad Traffic Police: हैदराबाद में ट्रैफिक नियम तोड़ने वालों की अब नहीं खैर, ट्रैफिक पुलिस ले जाएगी सीधे कोर्ट..

HYDERABAD: The days of drunken drivers being let off with a simple fine are over. Beginning Friday, they will be produced in court. As part of a 'Drive/Enforcement Against Drunk Driving,' the police have decided to book the tipsy motorists under section 185 (a) of the Motor Vehicles Act and haul them up in court along with a chargesheet the next working day for prosecuting them. Turning the knife, the traffic police would seize the vehicles of the offenders to prevent them from driving in drunken condition.

Additional commissioner of police (Traffic) CV Anand, in a press release issued here on Thursday, said drunken drivers would henceforth be booked under section 185 (a) of the MV Act and produced in court. According to section 185 (a) of the MV Act, "Whoever drives or attempts to drive a motor vehicel under the influence of alcohol and if the BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) level exceeds 30 mg/100 ml of blood when checked by a breath analyser, shall be punishable for the first offence with imprisonment for a term which may extend up to six months or with fine which may extend to up Rs 2,000 or with both. For a second or subsequent offence committed within three years of the commission of previous offence, the imprisonment may extend up to two years, or a fine, which may extend up to Rs 3,000, or both''. Till now, the traffic police have been letting off motorists by collecting fine under 184 (b) of the MV Act. Recently, traffic police had entered into a partnership with the World Health Organisation to control accidents with special focus on drunken driving.