Reportedly in just a week, Bengaluru Traffic Police officials have collected over Rs 70 lakh in fines from motorists in the city. Meanwhile several residents have been made to cough up hefty fines as per the new rules in the Motor Vehicles Act and in fact, one resident had to pay Rs 17,000 for multiple traffic violations.
Furthermore as per statistics released by Bengaluru Traffic Police department, there were 6813 people booked for traffic violations in Bengaluru between September 4 and September 9 (until 10 am). Perhaps Traffic police officials collected Rs 72, 49,900 in fines in the same period i.e over Rs 18 lakh collected as fines per day and the statistics were compiled after new fine amounts were fixed as per the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019.
Moreover the most common offence since the new rules kicked in were cases of pillion riders without a helmet. Presently there were 2645 such cases while there were an additional 1968 cases of motorists riding without a helmet and in both cases, the new fine is Rs 1000 for each offence. There were also 708 cases of motorists driving without wearing the seat belt. The new fine for such an offence is Rs 1000. There were 695 cases of drivers using their mobile phones while driving and 109 cases of drivers without the vehicle insurance.
