In a special drive against unauthorised parking and to remove encroachment on the Mehrauli-Gurugram (MG) Road, the Gurugram traffic police issued 2,000 challans in just four days. While more than 100 vehicles were towed away. The drive was started from May 11.
Meanwhile, the Haryana police have also been started challans with new amendments to the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. The traffic police have issued around 54 challans who did not have driving licence and to those running from the spot during checking, as per the data was provided by the traffic police.
The new rule has been announced by the state government, as part of amendments to the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. As per the rule a fine of Rs 500 is to be paid for driving without a license the first time. The second time, the penalty will be Rs 1,000.
Meanwhile, underage drivers will have to pay Rs 1,000 if they are caught driving and will have to cough up Rs 2,000 for repeating the offence and the owner of the vehicle which an underage driver is found to be driving is also punishable. The offence is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months.
The compounding fee fixed for driving a vehicle without high-security registration plate would be Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 for the subsequent offence respectively.
Apart from this, traffic violations will now have a higher penalty for repeat offences like not giving way to an ambulance etc to Rs 1,000 to Rs 5,000.
‘We will not tolerate any traffic violations in the city. The traffic police have issued lots of challans during our special drive on MG Road and Sohna Road,’ DCP Traffic, Balbir Singh said.
‘We will continue the drive so that the traffic violators can get a strong message that if they violet traffic rules they have to pay a heavy fine,’ he said.