Hazaribagh SDO Aditya Ranjan led a massive vehicle checking drive on Friday night near Sindoor village situated on NH33. During this drive SDO himself checked the papers of the vehicles and seized more than two dozen hyva and took the drivers into custody.
The SDO first reached Sindoor village with his team and started checking the vehicles passing through NH33 at about 11pm. He remained on the spot till 3 am. During this drive SDO checked the driving license, pollution certificate etc. with the team members of traffic department of Hazaribagh.
The members also checked the drivers through breath analyzer and booked all those drivers found drunk. During this drive hyva trucks were on the target of the team since he was regularly getting complaints about overloading.
During the raid most of the hyvas were found overloaded and without required papers. On his direction all the seized vehicles were taken to a marketing yard premises and the drivers were arrested on the charge of driving the vehicle with incomplete paper and over speeding.
Since last few years hyva trucks had emerged as havoc on the roads for the denizens of the district. The number of hyva in this district has increased with the increase of coal mines. The hyva owners use to carry coal from the mines to the dumping yard and in return journey they load stone chips or sand to be supplied various construction sites of the area.