HC: Does number of helmet rule violations corroborate with number of cases booked?

Chennai | Saturday | 6th July, 2019

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It also said it will depute certain advocates to ascertain the number of violations which will be corroborated with the actual number of cases booked. At Anna Nagar alone, 90,000 cases have been reported for which challans will be issued. There are roads where many vehicles pass through, such as Mount road, Beach road and Poonamalee High Road. “Though the additional advocate-general submits that for traffic route violations, cases have been registered like rash driving, over speeding, driving without helmets, cell phone driving, triples driving and signal violations, we are of the view that pillion riders are not wearing helmets,” the court said. ‘10,000 pillion riders booked’The additional advocate-general submitted that in the past three days alone, about 10,000 pillion riders without helmet were booked.