The district police Bokaro led by Superintendent of Police Kartik S conducted drunk drive checks on Saturday late night. As many as 150 vehicles including cars and two-wheelers were seized while over dozens of boozers were held.
Police also applied breath analyser test at NH23 Bokaro-Ramghar highway, the traffic rules violators who found driving under the influence of liquor and caught drinking on roadsides were fined and released later.
Among the arrested people few of them were handed over to the excise department officials, police said. “Motor Vehicles Act categorically says that whoever, while driving or attempting to drive a motor vehicle has, in his blood, alcohol exceeding 30 mg per 100 ml of blood detected in a test by breath analyser, shall be punishable for drunken driving,” said R Giri Advocate of the district court.
A research report reveals that “drunk-driving death claims 19 lives daily in India”. The research report was carried out after a collaborative study between American researchers and Rajasthan police in May last year.
“Drunk driving is an offence that results in the violation of the public safety on roads leading to accidents,” said Anand Jyoti Minz Traffic DSP Bokaro.
“The first offence can earn up to six months imprisonment or a fine up to Rs 2000 or both. While the second subsequent offence, if committed within three years of the previous offence, entails imprisonment up to two years or Rs 3000 fine or both,” said Minz.