The List of Imprisonment of Drunken Drivers& MDL ( Motor Driving Licence) suspended/Cancelled by Special Metropolitan Court in Mumbai till today    

Road fatalities drop by 183
      Mumbai : The decision to send drunk drivers to prison, which was implemented a year ago, has yielded good results. There has been a sharp decline in the number of people dying on the city’s streets.
   From June 2006 to May 2007, before the Mumbai police asked the court to introduce prison terms for drunk drivers,687 people died in accidents. The number of fatal accidents during the same period was 719. The Alistair Pereira incident, which became a watershed case, occurred during the same period.
       The Mumbai police, prodded by the Bombay HC and public sentiment, initiated its zero-tolerance policy for drunken driving in June 2007. From July 2007, the police started imprisoning drunk drivers.
      With this implementation, the number of fatal accidents has dipped sharply—from 753 to 574—between July 2007 and June 2008. There has been a similar drop in the number of deaths as well. A total of 602 people died, 183 less than the corresponding figure of 785 for the same period a year ago. Starting from the first prison term for a drunk driver in July 2007, more than 7,100 people have been sent to jail for the same offence till date.
       Deputy commissioner of police (traffic) Harish Baijal agreed that there was a ‘definite’ correlation between the large number of prison sentences and the dip in fatal accidents and deaths. “The spectre of spending nights in prison has had a huge sobering effect,’’ he said.
       “The media played a very important role. They highlighted the issue and spread awareness about this social evil. Even the electronic display boards put up by us at major intersections has helped,’’ Baijal added

The ex-minister’s daughter was fined Rs 3,000 after she was made to take a breathalyser test in Worli on Friday night. Her car was seized as she wasn’t carrying a licence, officials said.
   She was one of the 143 people who were booked on Friday. Around 30 models and designers were caught for drunken driving on Thursday. TNN

List of Drunk Drivers sent to simple imprisonment from August,2007 till July, 2008  ( Click here to download )

On 1st August July, 2008 44 Drunken Drivers sent to simple imprisonment.  ( Click here )

On  4th August, 2008 04 Drunken Drivers sent to simple imprisonment.  (Click here)

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