Mumbai: Drink and drive your way to jail this New Year's Eve - NewsX
  • 5 years ago
It's that time of the year again... New Years Eve celebrations are round the corner and traffic cops in Mumbai are leaving no stone unturned in ensuring that the season of merry making passes without any incident. Incidents of Drunk Driving have dropped by a whopping 25 percent A little over 12,000 people have been caught driving under the influence of alcohol this year as opposed to over 16,000 last year. 3000 Traffic policemen will be deployed across the city to keep a check on drunk drivers There will be greater deployment in hotspots such as Gateway of India and Bandra The Mumbai traffic police's anti-drunk driving campaign has been going on for two years Last year on Dec 31, 739 people were arrested for drunken driving This year 222 people were caught driving drunk on a single Sunday in April!

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