Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Woman convicted for drunken driving

Woman convicted for drunken driving

 

Mumbai, Aug 5 (PTI) The Esplanade Court here for the first time has convicted a woman driver in a drunken driving case.
The woman, an executive, was driving a Mercedes on Aug 1 when the traffic police flagged her down in south Mumbai.

The court yesterday sentenced her to a day's simple imprisonment.

According to reports, she spent the day in Azad Maidan police lock-up and was later released in the evening.

The city has registered about 8,065 cases of drunken driving in the last one year. But this was the first time that a woman driver was convicted. PTI

 

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