Traffic violations by delivery agents soar in Bengaluru, 1.46 lakh cases between 2023-2025
Strict deadlines reportedly force them to race against the clock, often compromising road safety
Bengaluru: Traffic violations involving delivery agents in Bengaluru have surged to worrying levels, with the Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP) registering 1.46 lakh cases between 2023 and 2025. The numbers highlight the growing strain faced by them, with pressure to meet strict deadlines pushing them into unsafe driving practices.
According to data cited by Deccan Herald on Monday, violations have risen steadily across the city’s busiest tech and commercial corridors. Cases against delivery executives, many of whom work under intense, minute-by-minute tracking, increased from 30,968 in 2023 to 52,153 in 2024, reaching 63,718 cases in 2025 (as of November 15).
Police pointed out that instant commerce rush is leading to frequent lapses in basic traffic rules, including wrong parking, wrong-side driving, signal jumping, riding on footpaths and not wearing helmets.
The BTP’s eastern division, covering Whitefield, KR Puram, Indiranagar and Halasuru, has emerged as the hotspot for such violations, accounting for 73,971 cases over the past three years. The division has seen violations nearly double year-on-year, the report added.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic, East) Sahil Bagla stressed that the “10-minute delivery pressure” built into platform algorithms is a major factor behind the surge in violations. He noted that better solutions must come from the companies and aggregators that set these delivery expectations.
A food delivery executive, reflecting the frustrations of many in the sector, questioned the logic of risking lives to deliver groceries or food items within minutes. “Food and groceries are not emergency items like medicines or ambulances that have to be delivered within a short time,” DH quoted him as saying.
He shared that riders remain constantly anxious about time. “The company monitors us constantly, and if we are late even by a minute, the next delivery allocation is affected, which means less money for the day,” he added. Riders, he said, are told to complete at least 18 deliveries a day to qualify for incentives, leaving them “racing against time on the road.”
Meanwhile, a recent meeting chaired by the police commissioner had given instructions to food and delivery aggregators regarding traffic violations. Directions were issued also issued at the police station level. DCP Bagla said stricter measures, including licence suspension and vehicle impoundment for repeat offenders, are likely to be taken up in upcoming discussions.
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Opposition plans to move fresh notice seeking removal of CEC Gyanesh Kumar
New Delhi (PTI): Undeterred by the rejection of their earlier notices, opposition parties are planning a fresh move to seek the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, sources said on Saturday.
According to highly placed sources, leaders from several opposition parties are in talks, and at least five senior MPs from different parties -- including the Congress, the Trinamool Congress, the Samajwadi Party and the DMK -- are working on drafting a new notice to initiate removal proceedings.
It has, however, not yet been decided which House the notice would be moved in, or whether it would be introduced in both Houses as was done last time, the source added.
Buoyed by the defeat of The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 in Lok Sabha on Friday, opposition leaders are aiming to secure more MPs' signatures on the notice and are looking at garnering at least 200, the source said.
"We want to make a statement. We first need to prove that the number last time was underestimated," the source added.
In its earlier notices, the opposition had accused CEC Kumar of a "failure to maintain independence and constitutional fidelity" and of acting under the "thumb of the executive".
The notices levelled sweeping charges against the CEC, alleging “proved misbehaviour” on grounds including a compromised and executive-influenced appointment, partisan functioning -- such as the alleged “graded response” doctrine targeting opposition leaders -- obstruction of electoral fraud investigations, and erosion of transparency through refusal to share data and materials.
They further accused him of enabling large-scale disenfranchisement via Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercises in Bihar and elsewhere, defying or delaying compliance with Supreme Court directions, and acting in alignment with the political executive, thereby undermining the independence of the Election Commission.
However, in almost similar responses, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan rejected the notices, holding that even if the allegations were assumed to be true, they did not meet the high constitutional threshold of “misbehaviour” required for removal.
They reasoned that appointment-related issues or prior government service do not constitute misconduct; differences in public statements or administrative decisions lack evidence of wilful abuse of authority; and actions like data-sharing or electoral roll revisions fall within the commission’s constitutional mandate and are subject to judicial review.
The responses also stressed that many issues cited were either speculative, politically interpretative, or sub judice, and that removal proceedings cannot be based on disagreement or perceived political consequences but require clear, specific, and provable misconduct, which, they concluded, was absent in this case.
