Hyderabad: For at least the last five years, police officers in Hyderabad likes to play the schoolgirl rocking with people who are caught driving their cars or bicycles drunk.
The police will seize the vehicle and return it only after the owner goes to court and counseling sessions.
It will take at least a few days if not more.
The counseling session stopped at several police commissioners after the pandemic hit but seized the vehicle continuing.
No wonder the three police commissioners in the city are now abandoned with the task quickly returning more than 6,000 vehicles after the Telangana High Court said that the police did not have the power to make such seizures.
The frequency of which vehicles seized can be measured from the fact that in 2021 alone, the police commissioner Hyderabad won 16,500 vehicles.
This effectively means more than 45 vehicles seized every day and it is also only in one police district.
The police also submitted a cost sheet in 7,269 cases.
A senior police officer told Stoi, “the order must be carried out and it will be done.” Have seizures help drop the number of cases of drunk driving in Telangana? Data from the latest National Crime Record Bureau shows that the state saw 1,328 accidents caused by drunk drivers in 2020 – the highest in this country.
343 people died in this accident, which was the second highest in this country after Uttar Pradesh.
On Saturday, officials at Commissioner Hyderabad and Cyberabad began returning vehicles, one day after the high court order was reported.
Sources, however, said officials were also seeking legal opinions about court orders.
The maximum number of vehicles is confiscated in trimulryry and Malakpet in Hyderabad.
In the boundary of the Cyberabad Commissioner, Kukatpally, Madhapur and Rajendranagar saw maximum seizures.
The high court, hearing the coupling petition that challenged the seizure, said that the police could not seize vehicles.
They must submit a vehicle to co-passengers who do not have alcohol or contact someone, known as drunk drivers.
The driver of a driver whose blood alcohol number is above 30 mg / 100 ml is treated as driving under the influence of alcohol.