Greater Chennai traffic police collect Rs 13.7 crore in penalty

CHENNAI: The Greater Chennai Traffic police closed 277 pending drunk driving cases and collected 28.72 lakh in a special drive by making phone calls to violators through call centres.


So far, 13,251 cases of drunk driving have been closed and 13.7 crore collected in the last five months. An official said 9,534 drunk driving cases were pending and hence more attention was given to such cases.

Traffic police also conducted surprise checks at 156 locations and 8,912 pending cases were disposed of including 67 drink driving cases.

In total 1,81,633 pending cases were disposed and a fine amount of around 7.58 crore was collected in last five months.