Wrongside driving Court slaps Rs 1000 fine

  • | Tuesday | 18th September, 2018

Later in the afternoon, a city court fined the driver Rs 1,000.This is the first conviction in the city since the police, last week, began a drive to file chargesheets under section 279 (rash driving) of the Indian Penal Code against such offenders. PUNE: The city police are showing they mean business when dealing with traffic offenders driving on the wrong side of the road.On Monday morning, the Dattawadi police filed a chargesheet within four hours against a truck-driver who was going the wrong way on the road linking Shahu College and Gajanan Maharaj temple. The court heard the case, studied the chargesheet and fined Shaikh within minutes.The police said patrolling had been stepped up on the road as well as the adjoining road linking the temple to the Laxminagar residential colony because many college students go the wrong way. Conviction in such cases entails a fine of Rs 1,000 or even jail up to six months or both.The truck-driver, Ayub Badshah Shaikh (32), a resident of Mohammedwadi road in Sayyednagar , was taken to the Dattawadi police station where senior inspector Devidas Gheware and inspector Krushna Indalkar prepared the chargesheet and submitted it in the court.

PUNE: The city police are showing they mean business when dealing with traffic offenders driving on the wrong side of the road.On Monday morning, the Dattawadi police filed a chargesheet within four hours against a truck-driver who was going the wrong way on the road linking Shahu College and Gajanan Maharaj temple. Later in the afternoon, a city court fined the driver Rs 1,000.This is the first conviction in the city since the police, last week, began a drive to file chargesheets under section 279 (rash driving) of the Indian Penal Code against such offenders. Conviction in such cases entails a fine of Rs 1,000 or even jail up to six months or both.The truck-driver, Ayub Badshah Shaikh (32), a resident of Mohammedwadi road in Sayyednagar , was taken to the Dattawadi police station where senior inspector Devidas Gheware and inspector Krushna Indalkar prepared the chargesheet and submitted it in the court. The court heard the case, studied the chargesheet and fined Shaikh within minutes.The police said patrolling had been stepped up on the road as well as the adjoining road linking the temple to the Laxminagar residential colony because many college students go the wrong way.

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