5,000 violators booked every day, netting a revenue of Rs. 5 lakh As of now no plans of reintroducing drunken driving checks: City Top Cop Mysore/Mysuru: City Traffic Police has been helping the Government to fill its coffers with the huge amounts collected in the form of fines from rule violators. Every day, over 5,000…
Clear pending traffic violation dues, renew your vehicle documents
October 11, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Planning to obtain Fitness Certificate, Emission Test Certificate or Insurance renewal for your vehicle? Then clear your pending traffic violation penalties first before obtaining the documents. Assistant Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Sandesh Kumar told Star of Mysore that most of the vehicle owners do not respond to notices sent to them on traffic violation…
1 lakh traffic violation cases booked in August
September 5, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Looks like people are not scared of COVID-19 anymore. The same people who observed maximum restraint during the initial days of lockdown till lockdown 3.0 are now moving freely on the roads as all the restrictions have been removed and even the bars, clubs and restaurants are allowed to serve liquor. As such there…
Revised hike in penalties for traffic violators comes to force from today
June 15, 2019Rs.1,000 fine for not wearing seat belts, Rs.25,000 for drunk driving New Delhi: The revised hike in penalties for traffic violators which is approved by Union Government after passage of the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill 2017 in both the Houses of the Parliament came into force from today. The Bill proposed huge increases in various…
Mysuru Traffic Police conduct special drive
June 15, 2019Seize 66 vehicles sans documents, insurance Mysuru: The Mysuru City Traffic Police, who conducted a Special Drive at Udayagiri Police limits on Thursday, have seized 66 vehicles without documents. City Police Commissioner K.T. Balakrishna and DCP M. Muthuraj supervised the Traffic Police team comprising five Inspectors of all five Traffic Police Stations in city, 10…
Mysuru Police launch Public Address System to check traffic violations
April 11, 2019Traffic lessons to motorists through wireless mike at 52 Circles & Signals Mysuru: In a bid to regulate vehicular traffic, to ease congestion, as well as to sensitise motorists on various traffic rules at major junctions and Circles, the City Police have launched a Public Address System traffic awareness drive across the city. The Traffic…
Bring in road discipline by booking traffic violators
May 29, 2017Sir, Mysuru city traffic is in a real mess. Riding two-wheelers with 3 or 4 persons, rash driving, speeding on the wrong side, jumping the signal, riding side by side talking loudly inconveniencing other road users and so on have become a common sight. What is shocking is overtaking from left side on cross roads….
3 youths arrested for traffic violation, ganja possession
May 16, 2017Mysuru: When the City Police chased and intercepted a car for traffic violations and over-speeding yesterday, they were in for a surprise as they recovered banned Marijuana (ganja) inside the vehicle and also found that the occupants of the car had smoked the weed. The youths, who were under the influence of weed, have been…
Motorists not following the signals, but the vehicle ahead!
April 9, 2017Sir, This is in response to the letter by Raghu on questioning the existence of zebra crossings in the city and ignoring red traffic signals by many vehicle-users (Star of Mysore dated Mar. 22). As per my observation, vehicle-users are not stopping on red signal because they are not observing (seeing) the traffic signals. Instead…
Check rampant traffic violations across city
April 8, 2017Sir, A number of letters have appeared in Star of Mysore regarding rampant traffic violations in the city. What is intriguing is the silence on the part of the authorities concerned. The cops and home guards are lax in their duties. They will always be busy on their mobile phones. Majority of the home guards…
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