Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, Nov 8: The police registered seven FIRs and booked equal number of drivers for violation of Traffic Rules and resorting to heavy overloading of passengers and putting their lives to risk in district Rajouri today.
Official sources said that four of these FIRs have been registered in Thanamandi police station, two in Darhal and one in Sunderbani. In Thanamandi, case FIR 197/2018 has been registered against driver namely Mohammad Zabir, son of Makhan Din, resident of Husplote who was driving a van No. JK12/ 9795, case FIR No. 198/2018 against driver – Mohammad Istfaq, son of Wajahat Hussain, resident of Shahdra Sharief, who was driving a Tata Sumo JK11B 2990 , case FIR No 199/2018 against driver namely Arshid Mehmood, son of Mohd Shakoor, resident of Shadra Sharief driving Eco vehicle No. JK11B-2286 and FIR 200/2018 against Zaheer Iqbal, son of Abdul Majeed, a resident of Badakanna who was driving Eco vehicle JK11B-7082.
During traffic checking by a police team headed by SHO Thanamandi Nazir Ahmad Dar under the supervision of SDPO Thanamandi Iftikar Chowdhary, these vehicles were found overloaded with passengers after which their drivers have been booked.
Similarly, a team of Darhal Police Station headed by SHO Habib Pathan under the supervision of SDPO Thanamandi, Iftikar Chowdhary laid a traffic checking Naka and intercepted two heavily overloaded vehicles.
These include a Tata magic auto, without registration number, being driven by Aurangzeb son of Bagh Hussain resident of Thanamang and another Tata magic JK11C-5776 driven by Mohammad Arshad, son of Mohammad Sadiq, resident of Budh Khanari.
Both the drivers have been booked and cases in FIR 89/2018 and 90/2018 under section 279/336 RPC have been registered at Darhal Police Station.
Similarly, another traffic checking naka was laid by SHO Sunderbani Romal Singh under the supervision of SDPO Nowshera Khaliq Hussain when a minibus JK02Q-6845 which was on way to Sunderbani from Bajabain driven by driver namely Mukesh Kumar, son of Bhaskar Dass, resident of Gagrote.
The driver had overloaded 18 passengers and some were hanging from window of vehicle thus causing danger to their lives. In this connection, a case FIR No 114/18 under section 279/336 RPC, 39/192 MV Act has been registered in Sunderbani Police Station and the driver has also been arrested.
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