It’s official: Drink, drive, lose licence (Times of India,November26,2009)
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
New Delhi: Driving under the influence of alcohol can now cost you your licence. The Delhi High Court on Wednesday accepted the city transport department’s new guidelines to deal with the menace of drunken driving, among which is the provision of cancelling the offender’s driving licence. The stage is now set for the guidelines to be notified within four weeks.
The new rules arm the Delhi Police with the right to confiscate the licence of a driver found to have consumed alcohol beyond permissible limits. In such cases, a memo would be issued to the driver who would then have to make a representation before the transport department. The department would decide whether the offender’s licence should be suspended or cancelled.
The new guidelines are part of an intensification of the campaign against drunken driving ahead of the Commonwealth Games next year.
