PUNE: Pune metropolis police have determined to impound four-wheelers and two-wheelers pushed by minors and preserve the autos with them for a 12 months to curb rise in instances of underage driving, experiences Gitesh Shelke. The motion will start this week.
The transfer comes following the Might 19 accident in Kalyaninagar by which a minor boy driving a Porsche Taycan hit a motorbike, ensuing within the dying of two techies.
Earlier, the police would summon and register instances towards dad and mom of such drivers and ship the instances to courts for ultimate settlement.
“The thought behind conserving seized autos at police stations is to make sure minors don’t get an opportunity to drive them once more. This can assist scale back accidents involving minors,” further commissioner of police Manoj Patil mentioned.
Street security activists, nonetheless, raised questions over the feasibility of the motion. “House owners of impounded autos can safe an order from the court docket to get their autos launched, negating the motion. Moreover, police stations are grappling with area points to maintain seized autos on their premises,” an activist mentioned.
“In case the proprietor of an impounded automobile secures an order for the discharge of the automobile, we’ll abide by the court docket’s directives. As for the area crunch, a number of police stations have massive area, and we’ll utilise it,” Patil mentioned.
In line with part 199A of the Motor Automobiles (MV) Act, police cannot solely impound autos utilized by underage drivers but in addition get the RTO to cancel the registration of such autos for 12 months and make sure the minor offender doesn’t get a driving licence until he/she attains the age of 25. The identical part additionally empowers police to file instances towards dad and mom of underage drivers.
