Traffic offenders will now be ‘named & shamed’
Dipak.Dash@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:30.08.2019
In its bid to tame habitual traffic offenders, enforcement agencies will be allowed to put names of people committing repeated offences such as jumping red signal, using mobile phone while driving, drunk driving, racing or blocking the way of emergency vehicles in public domain.
This is for the first time the government has made a provision in the amended Motor Vehicles Act to name and shame such offenders by uploading the details of their offences, which people can see. This will be in addition to the higher fines that they will have to pay besides facing the risk of going to jail. In certain cases, their driving licences (DLs) will also be revoked.
The act recently notified by the road transport ministry says that while for the first offence driving licence can be suspended for three months, for second or any subsequent offence the DL can be revoked. “..where a driving licence is revoked under this section, the name of the holder of such driving licence may be placed in the public domain in such manner as may be prescribed by the central government,” the amended law says.
For the first time, the government has made a provision in the amended Motor Vehicles Act to name and shame such offenders by uploading the details of their offences, which people can see
Dipak.Dash@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:30.08.2019
In its bid to tame habitual traffic offenders, enforcement agencies will be allowed to put names of people committing repeated offences such as jumping red signal, using mobile phone while driving, drunk driving, racing or blocking the way of emergency vehicles in public domain.
This is for the first time the government has made a provision in the amended Motor Vehicles Act to name and shame such offenders by uploading the details of their offences, which people can see. This will be in addition to the higher fines that they will have to pay besides facing the risk of going to jail. In certain cases, their driving licences (DLs) will also be revoked.
The act recently notified by the road transport ministry says that while for the first offence driving licence can be suspended for three months, for second or any subsequent offence the DL can be revoked. “..where a driving licence is revoked under this section, the name of the holder of such driving licence may be placed in the public domain in such manner as may be prescribed by the central government,” the amended law says.
For the first time, the government has made a provision in the amended Motor Vehicles Act to name and shame such offenders by uploading the details of their offences, which people can see
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