55 fathers get jailed for minor children’s vehicle driving in Hyderabad

Hyderabad traffic department officials are conducting special drives against minors for driving vehicles. In a unique step, the police are arresting the father of the minor drivers by sending them to prisons for not fulfilling their parental responsibility of refraining their children from indulging in such unlawful activities.

In the past month, 1,079 charge sheets were filed and fathers of 55 children were jailed for one-two days. On Thursday, 9th Metropolitan Magistrate K. Alfal Hussain of Nampally jailed 10 people. 

The charge sheet was filed against the person running the vehicle. According to Section 180 of the Motor Vehicle Act, a minor driving a vehicle imposes violation by the owner of the vehicle. The traffic police, taking into consideration, filed charge sheet against several 'vehicle owners' in the past month. These are the fathers of their minors.

According to the Indian Motor Vehicle Act (MV Act), persons under the age of sixteen should not drive any vehicles. Those over the age of 16 will have the opportunity to run regular vehicles without gears. Only after eighteen years, vehicles with gears are eligible to run. An employer who has been given the vehicle for a minor or driving license is also punished. Only so far in minor driving cases are rare.

A 14-year-old boy was rushed to a juvenile home on Wednesday after a day sentenced was given to him for traffic violations in Tolichouki.

For the past few years, the fathers were jailed for one to two days for the offence of the vehicle but this is the first time that the minor boy was taken to a Juvenile home in a minor driving case, said Traffic DCP AV Ranganath.

Traffic police are divided into three categories mainly regarding the violation. The threat to the driver of the vehicle, a threat to the other person and a threat to both the driver and the driver of the other vehicle. Traffic police say that minor driving will come in the third category.

The DCP further advised the parents not to permit their minor children to drive vehicles and warned that cases will be registered against them if they are caught and will be sent to jail.