Observing that the traffic police failed to follow the procedure to act against drunken drivers, the High Court of Karnataka has discharged a software engineer and his friend from the charge of assaulting a traffic policeman, when they were booked for driving a motorcycle under the influence of alcohol.
Justice Mohammad Nawaz passed the order while pointing out that the traffic police had failed to videograph the activity of checking drunken driving as per the circular issued in 2015 by the Bengaluru police.
The court also pointed out that the traffic police had even failed to call the jurisdictional police to act against the accused persons as mandated in the circular.
