Sentence in drunk driving case reduced

March 30, 2017 01:10 am | Updated 01:10 am IST - New Delhi

Observing that “every road user has the right to be safe on road, whether as a driver or as a pedestrian,” a court here has reduced 30 days’ simple imprisonment of the driver of a commercial vehicle to seven days’ simple imprisonment in a drunken driving case.

“The convict, Karambir, was driving the vehicle under the influence of liquor. As per the breath analyser report, he was found to have an alcohol content of 953 mg/100 ml. in his blood as against the permissible limit of 30 mg/100 ml. By doing so, the appellant [convict] put his own life at risk and also that of others,” the Additional Sessions Judge said.

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