Odisha: Drunk Auto-Rickshaw Driver Fined A Whopping Rs 47,500 in Bhubaneswar For Multiple Violations

The transport department of the Odisha Police on Wednesday (4 September) fined a drunk auto-rickshaw driver a whopping Rs 47,500. The challan included penalties for driving without a valid permit, licence, registration and under various sections of the amended Motor Vehicles Act which came into effect on 1 September, reports Indian Express.

The driver was fined Rs 500 for general offence, Rs 5,000 for having invalid driving license, Rs 10,000 for violating permit conditions, Rs 10,000 for drunken driving, Rs 10,000 for violating air/noise pollution, Rs 5,000 for allowing unauthorised person to drive vehicle, Rs 5000 for using vehicle without registration and fitness certificate and Rs 2,000 for plying the vehicle without insurance.

Meanwhile, admitting that he was drunk and driving on the road when caught, the driver refused to pay the fines accumulated on him. He said, “I cannot pay such a huge amount of penalty. Let them seize my vehicle or send to jail, I cannot pay the amount.”

In a similar incident from Gurugram, a driver of a two-wheeler was fined Rs 23,000 while the overall maximum figure of a challan went as high as Rs 32,500.