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Following 2 large fatal accidents involving minors driving the vehicle, the metropolis constabulary person intensified enactment against underage driving, terming it a superior usurpation that continues to assertion young lives contempt repeated consciousness campaigns.
Officials said that though respective programmes person been conducted to amended the nationalist astir the dangers of allowing minors to run vehicles, galore parents proceed to neglect supervision. This negligence has indirectly contributed to fatal accidents involving juveniles.
Police cited a caller mishap adjacent Hoskote connected the outskirts of Bengaluru, wherever minors reportedly riding a conveyance were killed, arsenic a grim reminder of the risks associated with underage driving.
The Bengaluru Traffic Police person been taking stringent measures against violations nether the Motor Vehicles Act (IMV Act). Data shared by the postulation part shows a dependable emergence successful cases booked against minors for driving up from 94 successful 2023 to 414 successful 2025.
City Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh said that strict ineligible enactment volition beryllium initiated against the minors and their parents for driving oregon riding and allowing their wards to usage vehicles. The conveyance owners volition beryllium booked nether the peculiar drive.
Meanwhile, the Bengaluru Traffic Police person launched a peculiar thrust against motorcycle stunts and wheelying incidents, said Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Karthik Reddy. The jurisdictional officials person been asked to intensify checks and tabs connected specified incidents, some online and offline. The constabulary person identified astir 54 specified spots based connected erstwhile incidents, and kept a peculiar ticker connected these stretches to way down offenders.
