'No helmet, no fuel' rule to be imposed in Kolkata from Dec 8

'No helmet, no fuel' rule to be imposed in Kolkata from Dec 8

Nearly half of over 1.8 million vehicles registered in Kolkata in 2019 were two-wheelers.

Kolkata Police Commissioner Anuj Sharma has ordered that two-wheeler riders will not be given petrol at the petrol pumps if they are found without a helmet from December 8 to February 5. In order to get petrol, even the pillion rider will have to wear a helmet. Kolkata Police had registered around 93,855 cases of rash driving in 2019.

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“No petrol pumps in the city shall sell petrol to any such two-wheeler rider who arrives at the petrol pump without a helmet or is carrying a pillion rider without a helmet,” said a police officer.

Earlier authorities in Noida, Aligarh and Bengaluru enforced such rules.

“We welcome the rule. But sometimes it becomes difficult to enforce such a rule without police protection,” said a petrol pump owner in Kolkata.

Nearly half of over 1.8 million vehicles registered in Kolkata in 2019 were two-wheelers. The number of two-wheelers went up from around 83,00,00 to around 93,00,00 between 2017 and 2019.

“It has been observed that the number of cases involving two-wheeler riders riding without helmets and carrying pillion riders without helmets has gone up manifold despite prosecutions,” said a second police officer.

The police registered around 93,855 cases of rash driving in 2019. One out of every three such rash driving cases, around 32,600 cases, involved two-wheelers.

According to the police’s annual review, they pursued 96,00,00 prosecutions in 2017. Around 11,000 involved violation of the helmet rule. The number of such prosecutions went up to over 2.1 million in 2019. It included over 60,00,00 cases involving two-wheeler drivers without helmets.

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