With a 50 per cent low cost in site visitors fines, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah workplace’s settled seven site visitors violations that concerned his official automobile. Karnataka BJP state president Vijayendra additionally settled fines of 10 site visitors violations involving his automobile.
Site visitors police sources confirmed that surveillance cameras below the Clever Site visitors Administration System (ITMS) captured a number of infractions involving the CM’s Toyota Fortuner. The violations embrace six situations of not sporting a seatbelt and one case of dashing, all between January and August 2024. In every seatbelt violation, CM Siddaramaiah was reportedly touring within the passenger seat and the latest violation was recorded in August, whereas others occurred all through the primary seven months of the yr.
The Chief Minister’s workplace has settled all penalties, paying a complete of Rs 2,500 after availing the state authorities’s 50 % low cost on site visitors fines. This waiver scheme applies to all pending site visitors violations throughout Karnataka. A senior Bengaluru Site visitors Police Division official confirmed that the instances have been processed via commonplace procedures with none particular consideration. “The instances have been handled as per process, and the nice was paid like in another case,” the official acknowledged.
Within the case of Vijayendra’s automobile, the violations included not sporting a seat belt, dashing, sign jumps and others. In keeping with the police, his workplace paid Rs 3,250 nice which was pending from 2020.
In keeping with police, the provide might be legitimate from August 23 to September 12. Town has 3 crore site visitors violations pending between 2019 and 2025 which quantities to round Rs 1,000 crore. As of Saturday, the site visitors police stated that 16,21,721 instances have been settled and a complete quantity of Rs 45,52,750 crore was collected.