Drive against non-insured vehicles gains momentum

HUBBALLI: After a hiatus owing to Covid-induced lockdowns, traffic cops are back to business. They have intensified the drive against motorists roaming on the city roads without proper documents.

Despite the Supreme Court guidelines that every vehicle plying on the roads should have a valid insurance, many vehicles are not insured. This has forced police to intensify their drive to check vehicles, said a cop.

Another traffic constable said, “We have received orders from higher officials to verify documents of vehicles, especially for insurance. If any rider is caught without insurance or if the insurance has expired, the vehicle will be seized. It will be released only the insurance is renewed,” he said.

The document checking drive was necessitated as increasing number of vehicle theft cases are being reported. Recently Town Station police nabbed three accused, who had stolen an Enfield bike. Police in the past have also found that stolen vehicles were used in crime, said deputy commissioner RB Basaragi.

The commissionerate did not go easy on traffic offenders even during the lockdown, he said. Data sourced by the commissionerate indicates that 50,773 cases were booked from March to September this year and Rs 2,68,80,950 fine was collected.

Source: The Times of India