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The Madras High Court connected Wednesday cautioned that the regular policing enactment successful the State should not endure due to the fact that of the impending Legislative Assembly predetermination and that the constabulary should not extremity up citing elections arsenic a crushed for each different hold successful performing their regular work.
Justice N. Anand Venkatesh sent crossed the connection during the proceeding of a 2024 case. He embarked connected a task to find a solution to forestall youngsters from indulging successful reckless riding and driving of motorcycles and cars connected nationalist roads, by roping successful the constabulary arsenic good arsenic counsellors for reforming the youth.
After uncovering that not overmuch had happened aft the Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF) successful Chennai conducted a survey successful collaboration with SAMVAD, an inaugural of the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development, successful 2025, the justice called for a presumption study from the constabulary by February 25
“The occupation present is that each the constabulary officials volition beryllium focused connected elections. The full State volition travel to a standstill. The enforcement and everybody volition beryllium looking aft elections. So, what volition hap to others? What volition hap to motorcycle racing, what volition hap to radical who die?” the justice asked a authorities advocate.
“The constabulary section request not beryllium wholly immersed successful the predetermination process. Their occupation is lone supportive. They lone request to support instrumentality and order. Now the ailment is that the survey study of SCARF and SAMVAD is not being followed up by the police. So, you record a presumption study by [February] 25,” the justice said.
It was successful March 2024, portion dealing with a petition filed by 2 youngsters to quash a transgression lawsuit booked against them for rash riding, the justice had sought the assistance of the Greater Chennai Traffic Police (GCTP) and State Public Prosecutor Hasan Mohamed Jinnah to betterment youngsters aged betwixt 18 and 25.
The past Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic), R. Sudhakar, had told the tribunal that the GCTP regularly stations 3 interceptor vehicles mounted with Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras connected ECR, Old Mahabalipuram Road oregon Kamarajar Salai, and Koyambedu-Maduravoyal Road to observe and drawback vehicles that indulge successful stunts oregon racing.
Stating that the GCTP besides maintains a database of aged offenders progressive successful racing since 2022, the Additional Commissioner said 107 bonds had truthful acold been executed by the violators for keeping bully behaviour, and since astir of them were teenagers, their parents had been informed of the violations.
After taking enactment of the submissions, the tribunal initiated a technological survey by SCARF and SAMVAD to recognize the psyche of the youngsters indulging successful unsafe behaviour connected nationalist roads since 1.68 lakh radical had mislaid their lives and 4.43 lakh had suffered injuries successful 4.61 lakh roadworthy accidents reported successful the state successful 2022 alone.
The survey titled ‘Development of Risk-Reduction & Related Behaviours Change Interventions for Youth Traffic Offenders’ was conducted by some the organisations together, and a elaborate study was submitted successful April 2025 for the constabulary section to hole a module to woody with young postulation offenders.
