HYDERABAD: A local court on Friday convicted an autorickshaw driver on the charge of drunken driving and sentenced him to undergo two months simple imprisonment.

Twenty-four-year-old Ch. Srinivas, a resident of Premnagar in Erragadda, was driving a seven-seater autorickshaw along with some passengers when the traffic police intercepted him in front of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University at Kukatpally on Thursday and checked him with a breath analyser. In the test, it was found that Srinivas had consumed 180 mg liquor while driving. A case under Section 185 of the Motor Vehicle Act was booked against the driver, according to Kukatpally traffic police station Inspector A. Nageswara Reddy.

Srinivas was produced at the Ninth Metropolitan Magistrate Court at Miyapur where the magistrate sentenced him to undergo two months imprisonment. The driver was later sent to Cherlapally jail.

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