Hyderabad: The Cyberabad traffic police conducted a special drunk driving enforcement drive over the weekend resulting in the apprehension of 240 offenders.
Of the 240 offenders, 193 were bikers while nine of them were three-wheeler drivers and 38 were four wheelers. As many as 199 offenders had BAC levels ranging from 36 mg/100 ml to 200 mg/100 ml while 32 offenders had BAC levels ranging from 201 mg/100 ml to 300 mg/100 ml and nine offenders had BAC levels ranging from 301 mg/100 ml to 550 mg/100 ml
Cyberabad Deputy Commissioner of Police, Traffic I, Ranjan Ratan Kumar said all the offenders will be produced before the court concerned.
The Cyberabad police reiterated that driving under the influence of alcohol is a serious offence. If anyone is found to be driving in an inebriated condition and causes a fatal accident, such individuals will be booked under Section 105 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Culpable Homicide Not Amounting to Murder).
The maximum punishment under this section is 10 years of imprisonment along with a fine. In the last week from April 6 to 11, 86 DD cases were disposed in the courts, in which two persons got fine while jail term while one got fine and social service and 83 got only fine.
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