A day after an auto-rickshaw driver and owner were fined a record Rs 45,500 for flouting traffic rules, another auto-rickshaw driver was slapped with a huge amount of fine for the same offence on Thursday.
The Commissionerate traffic police issued a challan of Rs 27,500 against auto-rickshaw owner Rabindra Kumar Sahoo, a resident of Bijipur under the Tamando police station, and driver Kabindra Sahoo of Bolgarh in Khordha district for violating traffic rules.
The driver and owner of auto-rickshaw were fined Rs 500 for general offence, Rs 10,000 for violating air pollution, Rs 5,000 for using vehicle without registration and fitness certificate (FC), Rs 10,000 for using vehicle without permit or violating permit conditions and Rs 2,000 for plying without insurance.
Auto-rickshaw driver Kabindra Sahoo landed in trouble as he failed to produce valid documents related to the vehicle including FC, pollution certificate, road permit during strict frisking conducted by the motor vehicle officials on the Vani Vihar flyover.
This was the second instance in two consecutive days after implementation of the new Motor Vehicles law in Odisha.
Not only private vehicles but a Government vehicle was also penalised on the day for flouting rules.
A vehicle of the Enforcement Squad of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) was fined Rs 15,000 for flouting traffic norms under the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act, 2019.
Concerned police officials intercepted the vehicle, a pickup truck, at NALCO Square here and asked the BMC staffers to produce documents of the vehicle.
Later, a fine of Rs 10,000 for lacking permit and Rs 5,000 for carrying passengers in a goods vehicle was imposed.