If you plan to celebrate New Years Eve in Mumbai city this year, then you better make a choice between Drinking and Driving.

If you’re caught driving drunk on new year’s eve, you will straightaway have your driving licence cancelled. While cops earlier only pressed charges under the Motor Vehicles Act, Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil has asked them to ensure this time that a drunk driver loses his licence. The licences will be confiscated on December 31 and cancelled soon as the amendment is through.

The official said that of all cases of drunk driving registered in a year, about 45 per cent are in December and a majority of these in the week starting Christmas.

Chief Minister has also asked Mumbai police to station special vigilance squads at 25 ‘danger spots’ in the city for new year’s eve. The spots, identified by the police during a high-level meeting chaired by police commissioner A N Roy recently, include the Marine Drive promenade, the JJ flyover, Worli sea-face and Carter Road and Hill Road in Bandra

However I doubt whether this rule will be very much effective, knowing the fact that majority of Mumbai Traffic Control cops don’t hesistate in taking bribes. Anyways I guess, something is always better than nothing.

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