Drive Against Motor Vehicle Violation
The Transport Department in a drive conducted against violation of Motor Vehicle Rules for four days from July 22 to 26 checked 4,423 vehicles and booked 562 cases.In a release, the Deputy Transport Commissioner, T. Gunasekaran, said that during the drive the authorities came across complaints of overload by goods, overload by persons, misuse of permit, plying without insurance cover, without records, without driving licence, booking unaccompanied luggage in buses besides other minor rule violations. The authorities also detained as many as 16 vehicles for serious violations.
During the four day long drive, the authorities collected Rs. 3,60 lakh as tax besides collecting a compounding fee of Rs 2.27 lakh for the violations. The authorities also proposed Rs 7.60 lakh as compounding fee to be realised by the respective registering authorities after adhering to procedures such as serving of notices seeking explanation.
