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The Cyberabad Traffic Police announced a bid of restrictions and enforcement measures up of New Year celebrations for December 31, informing of strict enactment against postulation violations, drunk driving and non-compliance by commercialized establishments and transport operators.
Cyberabad Police Commissioner, Avinash Mohanty, issued a notification imposing restrictions connected operation and debris proscription vehicles wrong the Outer Ring Road limits. Such vehicles volition not beryllium permitted wrong the ORR betwixt 10.30 p.m. and 2 a.m. connected the intervening nighttime of December 31 and January 1.
The advisory volition beryllium successful unit from the evening of December 31 done the aboriginal hours of January 1, with extended checks for drunk driving opening astatine 8 p.m. crossed each roads successful the Cyberabad Police Commissionerate limits. Special cameras person been installed to observe violations specified arsenic wrong-side driving, unauthorised parking, speeding, awesome jumping, rash driving and riding without helmets, with offenders to beryllium identified and prosecuted.
Cab, taxi and autorickshaw operators person been directed to deterioration due uniforms, transportation valid documents and not garbage rides. Police said refusal to ply would pull penalties nether Section 178 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, and e-challans would beryllium issued. Complaints tin beryllium sent to the Cyberabad Traffic Police WhatsApp fig 94906-17346 with conveyance details, clip and location. Operators person besides been warned against misbehaviour and overcharging.
Bars, pubs and clubs person been cautioned that managements volition beryllium prosecuted if they knowingly oregon negligently let customers to thrust nether the power of intoxicant aft consuming liquor connected their premises. Establishments person been asked to amended patrons connected the consequences of drunk driving and guarantee alternate question arrangements, including stopping intoxicated persons from driving away.
Police said vehicles would beryllium taken into impermanent harmless custody if drivers neglect to nutrient valid documents. Motorists are required to halt and cooperate during checks, with obstruction of constabulary duties inviting ineligible action. Minor driving oregon driving without a valid licence volition pb to detention of the vehicle, and some the proprietor and operator volition beryllium prosecuted. In specified cases, travellers volition person to marque their ain arrangements to proceed their journey.
Outlining the consequences of drunk driving, the constabulary said cases nether Section 185 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, would beryllium booked and offenders produced earlier court. The punishment for a archetypal offence is ₹10,000 and oregon imprisonment of up to six months, portion repetition offences pull a punishment of ₹15,000 and oregon imprisonment of up to 2 years.
Driving licences volition beryllium seized and sent to the respective RTOs for suspension, with first-time offenders facing a three-month suspension and repetition offenders facing imperishable revocation. In cases wherever drunk driving results successful death, a transgression lawsuit volition beryllium registered nether Section 105 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and the accused volition beryllium arrested and sent to jail.
