Days after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed concern over motorbike riders without helmets, the Kolkata police issued a notification stating that motorcyclists will not be allowed to buy fuel if they are not wearing helmets.
In the notification issued on Saturday, City Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar stated that under the “No Helmet No Petrol” rule, “no petrol pump within the jurisdiction of Kolkata Police shall henceforth sell petrol to any such two wheeler rider who comes to the petrol pump riding a two wheeler without a helmet.”
Stringent punishmentThe notification also says that those who violate the rule shall be charged under Section 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) with a jail term of up to six months.
