Nagpur: Beware! Traffic offenders, especially those who jump red signals, use cellphones while driving / driving, riding without helmets and not wearing a seat belt while driving a four-wheeled vehicle.
The Nagpur traffic police began to impose part 179 from motorized vehicle laws, where violators will now be fined RS500 more for each of these violations.
DCP (traffic) Sarang Awad said they were caught riding a helmet will be fined RS1,000 with the previous RS500.
Aware of the Senior Zone Traffic Pi Jagvendrasingh Rajput said his zon had begun to force this section.
About Section 179 of motor vehicle laws, 1988 (order disobedience), Rajput said traffic police had implemented it since the beginning of the year.
“But now we have decided to add part 179 of the MVA (order disobedience) for six violations including driving at the speed of Breakneck, jumping signals, using cellphones while driving and driving without a helmet,” Rajput said.
At present, according to the action of the MV, a penalty for driving without a helmet is RS500, RS200 for signal jump and RS200 to use cellphones while driving.
For the subsequent, violations of this violation must pay an additional fine of RS500.
Already in September, the traffic police had applied part 179 at 2,370 offenders, collecting RS11.85 lakh both of them, according to traffic police data.
In this calendar year (from January 1 to September 22), Traffic Police sentenced 1.51,337 two-wheeled riders without a helmet because of the 118,493 over the same period last year.
Police stations that punish violators of the city police station will help Nagpur traffic police to punish traffic violators, especially two-wheeled riders without helmets.
“The decision was taken as a direction of Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar.
The police from the police station will focus on the internal road,” Awad said.
Awad said all police stations were equipped with one card reader machine.
This step is intended to limit road accidents involving two-wheeled riders.
On the first day of the shared drive, traffic police from 10 zones and police from 33 police stations, trapped around 1,300 two-wheeled riders without helmets.
Traffic police also decided to approach the regional transportation office (RTO) to suspend permits to direct repeat violators.
“Citing the command of the Supreme Court, the State House Department has issued a notice of enforcement part 19 of the Act MV, 1988, and 21 subbits of Central motor vehicle ACT, 1989, and directed law enforcement agencies (Traffic Police and RTOS) to suspend the SIM driving from Repeated offenders.
So, the traffic police will intensify this rule, “said the Senior PI.
Pay more RS500 to jump signals, up without a helmet
