Police booked 3,001 individuals for driving under the influence of alcohol on the night of December 31 across the three police commissionerates of Hyderabad, Cyberabad and Rachakonda.
The drunk driving checks across the twin cities began at 8 p.m. with the traffic and law and order police setting up barricades at several junctions. As per the official reports released by the police, a total of 1,243 people were caught for drunken driving in Hyderabad, 1,241 in Cyberabad, and 517 in Rachakonda.
Of the 1,243 drivers caught in Hyderabad city police limits, the majority of them were booked between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. “We booked 15 people between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. and 27 between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. Of the total, as many as 668 violators were in the age group of 19 to 30 and 324 were aged 31 to 40. Thirteen of them were minors.
