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City traffic police for hike in fine

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: The city police will write to the government for a hike in penalty amount for various traffic rule violations. Stating this at a press conference here on Friday, Additional Commissioner (Traffic) V.S.K. Kaumudi felt the present penalty structure was not a deterrent to the rule violators. This hike would apply to all types of violations.

Till the end of October this year, the traffic police had collected Rs. 12.63 crore towards fines under provisions of Motor Vehicle Act. This was in addition to the Rs. 29.46 lakh collected under the sections of City Police Act for physical obstruction of traffic flow and encroachment of public places.

The police were also planning to study the crackdown of the Mumbai police on persons driving vehicles while speaking over mobile phones.

“We learnt drivers booked for speaking over phones while driving are being sent to jail by the Mumbai police,” Mr. Kaumudi explained. He, however, made it clear that similar enforcement would be taken up only after analysing pros and cons of the situation.

The Additional Commissioner appealed to all persons served with e-challan to pay the fine amounts at the nearest eSeva centre or the traffic police control room opposite Public Garden, Nampally.

It was found that some persons were not paying the fine amounts within the stipulated time despite being served with challans for more than one violation. The data of persons who hadn’t paid the fine amounts was being compiled and would be sent to the courts for prosecution.

Different junctions

More than 100 cameras would be installed at different junctions to record video images of vehicles jumping signals, crossing stop lines and other violations. These cameras include speed dome cameras that can be tilted, panned and zoomed.

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