GURGAON: Do not drink and drive. Getting tough on drunk driving, the Gurgaon traffic police sentenced three people to a two-day imprisonment after 100 ml of alcohol was found in their blood. They were also fined Rs 2,000 each on Thursday.
The accused were convicted by the court of chief judicial magistrate Jasbir Singh and sent to Bhondsi jail. The accused were convicted by the court for the offence, which is punishable under Section 185 of Motor Vehicle Act, 1988.
The order said that in default of payment of the fine, the three convicts will have to further undergo a simple imprisonment for two days.
The three offenders were caught on Wednesday night at the Delhi-Gurgaon toll plaza by the team led by the police commissioner. Gurgaon police commissioner S S Deswal, who visited Delhi-Gurgaon toll plaza to inspect the ongoing drive against drunk driving, instructed the officers present on the spot to prepare a water-tight case against offenders so that they do not get away by just paying a meagre monetary fine.
Cops were asked to keep a record of the number of times a driver is caught for drunken driving; this information will be used in court so that frequent offenders are given harsher punishment including imprisonment.
Deswal said that there was a need to set an exemplary punishment for this offence which not only puts the drivers life at risk, but also of other road users. He added that drunk driving was the third major cause of accidental deaths in Gurgaon followed by overspeeding.
While two of Thursdays offenders were driving vehicles having Delhi registration numbers, one had Haryana number. The accused Ravinder, a resident of Bharthal in Delhi, who was driving a taxi (DL-1T-5672) was found to have 226-2 ml alcohol in blood. Munish Uniyal, a resident of sector 7, Dwarka (Delhi) driving a Maruti Zen (DL-3CR-9592), had 131-6 ml alcohol in blood. Sumeshpal, a resident of Muradnagar (Uttar Pradesh), had 260-2 ml alcohol.
According to Section 185 of the Motor Vehicles Act (1988), a driver who has alcohol exceeding 30mg per 100 ml of blood detected in a test by a breath analyzer can face imprisonment up to six months or fine or both. For second or subsequent offence, the jail term goes up to two years.
DCP (traffic) Bharti Arora said on Wednesday that 152 offenders were challaned for the offence and out of this, 56 alone were challaned at the toll plaza.
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