Jamshedpur Police on drive to put brakes on rash and errant drivers

Jamshedpur, May 5:Stepping up the drive against rash and errant drivers, Jamshedpur police have embarked on a special drive across the city seizing bikes, including a few high-end ones and taking drivers into task under various sections of IPC and MV Act.

Focussing on Jubilee Park and Sakchi, the special team seized several bikes on Thursday. Many of the motorbikes were found without proper number plates or no numbers plates and documents required.

City Police Vijay Shankar said that drag racing and rash driving were not only endangering the life of the rider but also of other people moving on the roads. According to him, most of the errant divers were in the age group of 18-25 years and they have been using WhatsApp groups to organise illegal racing events.

He said that the parents of the youth will be summoned and told to give an undertaking that their children will not indulge in such activity again. “If the same person is caught for the second time, he or she will be arrested,” he added.

During the summer season this is the time when youths indulge in unlawful assembly near roadsides and other places and pass lewd comments at girls and commit other illegal activities like open consumption of liquor and drunken and rash driving. The drive aims at instilling fear amongst such youths that any such acts would be dealt with sternly by the administration,” said an official..

 The drive would continue for a few more days. “The drive was carried out by three teams under the supervision of SSP. Each of the team was accompanied by local police station staff during the drive. We focused on unlawful assembly, rash driving, illegal consumption of liquor and drunken driving,” he noted.

The district police along with district excise department staff also carried out a special drive against drunk driving. “Checking were carried out near Bistupur roundabout and Sakchi roundabout and four persons were caught and prosecuted for drunken driving,” said the official.

The prosecution was done under Section 185 of the Motor Vehicles Act (imprisonment up to six months or fine up to Rs 2,000 or both). 

The move in this regard has been taken by police after senior police officials received many complaints from residents demanding to curb the menace at public places. People also said some of the drinkers do mischievous acts and pass lewd remarks on women crossing through there.

The tiger mobiles have also been directed to launch frequent checking near liquor shops. The cops will lay down checking near different liquor shops across the town continuously.