The Bengaluru Traffic Police personnel.
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Bengaluru: The Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP) conducted enforcement drives between November 17 and 23, from 11:30 am to 4 pm, during which they registered a total of 5,929 traffic violations across 34 categories.
The violations included cases of no entry, riding without a helmet, and pillion riders without helmets.
As a result, the BTP collected approximately Rs 66.46 lakh in fines from 9,912 cases, including 5,929 violations from the drive and 3,983 pending cases.
On November 23 alone, the BTP registered 626 violations, including driving against one-way, wrong parking, footpath parking, riding on footpaths, and triple riding, collecting Rs 3.13 lakh in fines.
Also, from November 18 to 24, the BTP conducted a crackdown on drunk driving and over speeding. After checking 60,692 vehicles, they registered 802 cases of drunk driving and collected Rs 1.28 lakh in fines for 128 overspeeding violations.