Owners of Vehicles to face heat too

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Sun, Jan 29, 2017, 12:12 PM

Owners of Vehicles to face heat too

Hyderabad January 29: The special drive to book minors driving vehicles and vehicle owners who facilitate this will commence on Monday.

This was decided on Saturday at a meeting of traffic police and RTA officials.The drive will also focus on auto rickshaw drivers and bikers particularly minors.

Vehicle owners who allow their vehicles to be driven by those not having a license will also be booked. Though all category of vehicles would be covered under the driver, auto drivers would be on the radar of the traffic cops and RTA teams for the first few days of the drive in the light of recent accident in which a person was crushed under the wheels of an autorickshaw. The incident caused much embarrassment to the traffic police.

"The joint teams comprising traffic cops and RTA officials will book cases against all motorists but the focus would be more on autorickshaws and bikes.In the case of autorickshaws, we will check and bookcases for overloading, lack of fitness of vehicle, not having the permit to run in the city and lack of insurance and driving license" said joint transport commissioner Panduranaga Naik.

Traffic cops, along with Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation officials, will jointly bookcases. To begin with, traffic cops want to focus on big shops encroaching space on the footpaths in front of their shops and showrooms.

Traffic cops said through the maximum punishment as per section 402 of GHMC Act is one month, the quantum of the punishment will be decided by the judiciary of area encroached upon by the squatter.

For example, imprisonment for drink driving varies from single day to even 15days depending upon the blood alcohol levels od the accused Likewise, the extent of space encroached would be the criteria for deciding the number of days of imprisonment.