Hyderabad: The city traffic police have lodged 32 indictments at the Panjagutta traffic police station against the persons caught while driving their vehicles in a drunken state and delivered it to the Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court in Nampally on Wednesday.
The court fined 29 people involved in drunk driving for the first time for Rs 10 500. Two people were fined Rs 16,500 and their driving licenses were permanently revoked for the second time because they were driving drunk.
One individual, who drove persistently drunk for the third time, was fined Rs 16,500 and sent to Chancalguda jail for 12 days.
Police urged citizens not to drive their vehicles while intoxicated and also informed the general public that drunk driving could lead to people not getting government jobs, passports and visa clearances.
Source: The Siasat Daily