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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TN supplier of ghee to Tirupati temple says labs have certified product quality
Chennai (PTI): AR Dairy, a company that supplied ghee to Tirupati Lord Balaji temple, on Friday said their product samples have been duly cleared by authorities certifying its quality.
The Dindigul based firm's spokespersons told reporters that only during the months of June and July they had supplied ghee to the Tirumala Lord Venkateswaraswamy temple.
Even when ghee was supplied to Tirupati temple, it was sent along with duly accredited lab reports.
"There has been no deviations at all." Their firm was only one of the several vendors who had supplied ghee to the TTD and quality certifications had been shared with them.
"Our ghee is not being sent now to Tirupati temple. We don't send," a spokesperson said, adding, their products were available at all places and that these could be tested for quality.
A major row has erupted following Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's claims of low quality ghee and alleged presence of animal fat in the laddus made and distributed at the shrine.
