Parents jailed in Hyderabad for letting their minor kids drive
Hyderabad, April 28: While 273 cases of ‘minors behind the wheel’ have been registered by Hyderabad traffic police between March and April 23, in 2018, 26 parent have also been imprisoned for the offence in March and April—show latest figures.
While 20 parents were jailed for letting minors drive in the month of March, 6 parents were jailed till April 23 of this month. In addition to parents being jailed, in one case, a minor was also sent to jail in the month of February, as per the court’s decision.
According to city traffic cops, the crackdown, came on the heels of a number of accidents involving underage drivers, is set to continue.
“We are now regularly conducting these special drives once or twice every week to crackdown against minor or underage drivers,” said Anil Kumar, Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Hyderabad.
The number of underage driving offences grew by more than 30 per cent in Hyderabad in 2017 when compared to the previous year—shows statistics provided by the traffic police. In 2017, cops booked a total of 14608 cases while a little fewer than 11,000 cases were booked in 2016—thus indicating a 32 per cent hike in the number of offences.
In the month of February 2018 alone, in a massive crackdown carried out by the Hyderabad city traffic police department, more than 1079 cases of minors, even as young as 13 or 14 driving motor vehicles were booked and 60 parents were also jailed for the offense.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
