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The Motor Vehicle Act of India nowadays witnessing the introduction of various new and strict provisions in order to control increasing number of road accidents. Following the same, Goa police has requested to the state government to book offenders for drink and drive for 7 day without bail.
The current drink and drive provision asks for the fine of INR 10,000 along with 6 months imprisonment and suspension of license for a period of 3 months. While the repeat offenders will be booked for 2 years in prison including the cancellation of licence. The noted point is to drink and drive is still a bailable offence.
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The Goa police made such request as the paying hefty fines is not an issue for most of the offenders. Also, the bail amount for repeat offenders is quite low that makes the Goa Police consider this offence strictly and plead against the state government. If the state government made it a rule, the Goa Police will become liable to book offenders driving while drinking, for a period of 7 days without bail. Also, the guilty can file for bail only on the 7th day of prison.
In a meet with Times of India, DGP Muktesh Chander said, “Courts have mostly been lenient on this issue. Drunken driving cases are not compoundable, so they’re always sent to court. It is up to the court to issue directions for suspension of licence. In many cases, the offender doesn’t even spend a single night in the jail. If people can be sent to jail in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Secundarabad for this kind of violation, why not in Goa?”
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The Govt of India is already serious about these road related offences and planning to bring in heftier fines, and stricter jail terms for violating traffic rules and regulations. Check out implemented fines under the current Motor Vehicle Act for various road offences such as overspeeding, use of cell phone while driving and not wearing a helmet. For overspeeding, the offender has to pay a fine of Rs 2,000 the first offence while for the next time the fine will get double to Rs 4,000. If caught talking on the phone while driving will attract the fine of Rs 100 for the first offence. The repeat offence will see an increased amount of Rs 300. Not wearing a helmet means get ready to pay 10 times of present Rs 100 to Rs 1000.
For clamping down juvenile drivers, the Road Transport Ministry has proposed a provision wherein the guardian and the owner of the responsible vehicle will be held. As the police will consider that the Juvenile is at the wheel with the consent of guardians and owners and it is a provocation to the crime. If such regulation passes, the guardian and the owner would be considered liable for the offence and will result in cancellation of registration.
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