Hyderabad Traffic Police book over 21,700 cases in special drive against wrong-side driving

A full of 21,713 individuals were booked for incorrect broadside driving during a peculiar thrust conducted by the Hyderabad Traffic Police successful the archetypal week of February 2026.

The peculiar enforcement thrust was carried retired betwixt February 2 and February 9 arsenic portion of ongoing efforts to amended roadworthy information and trim fatalities caused by postulation violations. Wrong-side driving, officials said, has emerged arsenic a wide and unsafe signifier successful Hyderabad, starring to congestion, disorder for law-abiding motorists, and accrued hazard of superior accidents.

The constabulary said motorists recovered driving against the absorption of postulation travel were penalised nether the applicable provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act.

Alongside enforcement, the Hyderabad Traffic Police said they are continuing to organise postulation acquisition and consciousness programmes to beforehand roadworthy discipline. Citizens are besides being sensitised done societal media platforms connected the value of liable driving behaviour.

Appealing to motorists to strictly debar wrong-side driving, the constabulary urged vigilant citizens to study postulation violations done the authoritative societal media handles of the Hyderabad Traffic Police oregon by contacting the postulation helpline and e-challan helpdesk.