Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Traffic Police (CTP) conducted a special drunk driving enforcement drive over the weekend, resulting in the apprehension of 80 offenders.
Of the 80 offenders, 62 were bikers, while three were three-wheeler riders and 14 car drivers. Sixty-three motorists had Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) levels ranging from 36 mg/100 ml to 200 mg/100 ml while nine had BAC levels ranging from 201 mg/100 ml to 300 mg/100 ml and eight had BAC levels ranging from 301 mg/100 ml to 550 mg/100 ml.
Cyberabad Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Traffic Admin, G Narender said that 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),” he said.
The maximum punishment under this section is 10 years of imprisonment along with a fine. Last week, as many as 142 drunken driving cases were disposed in the courts, in which 12 persons got fine and jail term and 130 persons got fine only
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