PEOPLE MAY LOSE DRIVING LICENSE IF CAUGHT WITH ALCOHOL OR MOBILE PHONES

Bureau,Odishabarta

Bhubaneswar: In a major development, the Supreme Court Committee on Road Safety has directed all State governments to suspend driving license of defaulters on several grounds like violating specified speed limit, red light jumping, carrying over load in good carriages and carrying passengers in good carriages, drunken driving and using mobile phones while driving.

The Supreme Court Committee on Road Safety is reviewing the DL suspension activity of the State on quarterly basis and has directed 100% suspension of the DLs against the cases detected which are liable for suspension.

Following the directive, Odisha Transport Commissioner has asked the regional transport officers to enforce the aforementioned guidelines.

 For traffic violators its noticed finally to public they may lose their driving licence if caught driving vehicles with alcohol or using mobile phones.

According to the source it was found that 334 e-challans have been issued for Drunken driving cases by the RTOs and as per the information from the Crime branch, 496 DLs have been forwarded by different police districts to the concerned RTOs for suspension of DLs for such cases.

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