Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA, Mar 7: In order to curb the menace of traffic violations in district Kathua, Traffic Police Rural,Jammu under the supervision of Mohan Lal Kaith, Senior Superindent of Police Traffic, Rural Jammu along with DySP Traffic Samba, Kathua, Behari Lal and other subordinate officer has launched a joint surprise checking drive on March 5 and 6 against inter-State sleeper buses, school buses, overloading in passenger buses, dumpers, without crash helmets and other visible offences.
During the surprise checking 520 vehicles were compound challaned, 70 were court challaned, 17 were seized under offence 207/ MVA and a fine of amount Rs.50000 realized from the violators. Besides, number of vehicles have been booked under various visible offences like driving without driving licenses , use of mobile phone while driving, without crash helmet, triple riding, over speeding etc. in which innocent human lives are directly involved. Meanwhile, a survey of entire roads of district Kathua has also been conducted and some traffic restriction have been imposed on some routes for hassle free and smooth conduct of vehicular traffic in district Kathua.
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