For errant youngsters who take the traffic rules for granted and find the definition of road sense fugitive, while driving, the coming time can turn out to be a nightmare. To resist the increasing trend of bike-stunting and drag-racing on city roads, the law seems to act quite stringently this time.
In a recent move by the Traffic police of Bangalore, the place which has witnessed shocking cases of people, especially pedestrians, bearing the brunt of the notorious acts by bike stunters, there would be hunts to curb the perpetrators. The move involves strong deterrents like a fine of up to Rs. 2,000 and the bike getting impounded. The police have decided to hand over the bikes to the parent of the violators, that too, if certain conditions, of the traffic police, are complied with. To make the drive more effective, even citizens are accredited to enforce the law against such bikers, under the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).
]The traffic police woke up from its sleep and started the crackdown, after a speeding two-wheeler rider crashed into an eight-year-old Yatish. The boy was crossing the road to get to his school in Jnanaganganagar on Kengeri-Nagarabhavi Ring Road. The youth riding the two-wheeler was up to some mischief when he lost control of his bike.
DCP Traffic (East), B.A. Muthannawas quoted as saying; “A person found speeding or performing stunts on city roads will be fined Rs2,000; the two-wheeler will be seized, and will be handed back to parents of the youth on one condition – that all the modifications be removed from the bike.”
The drive that aims to curb the menace of bike-stunting, which has posed a serious jeopardy to people's life, has already seen three motorcycles being seized. Bike stunts performed at busy roads and public places have resulted in frequent tragedies in the recent past. The nuisance even, once, instigated bystanders to set a motorcycle on fire at Sajjan Rao circle, when the rider lost control and rammed into parked vehicles. In another dismal incident in August, a pedestrian perished when a biker’s stunt went askew on Laggere Road.
Muthanna says that citizens would no more act like spectators as Article 43 of the CrPC, 1973, gives any citizen the license to make a ‘citizen arrest’. It’s an option which can be exercised by the citizens, wherein they can arrest “any person who in his presence commits a non-bailable and cognisable offence, or any proclaimed offender, and without unnecessary delay.” However, DCP Traffic (East), Muthanna asked citizens to be cautious against any kind misuse of the right.
Thus, law enforcers must act swiftly by conjuring stringent rules and approaches, so as to fend off future accidents.
