Jail For Drunken Driving

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  Indian-Origin Man Jailed For Killing Man In Car Accident In London

  An Indian-origin man has been sentenced to six years in prison for causing the death of another man while driving dangerously in London.

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  Professional Drivers Not Complying With Traffic Laws: Delhi Court

  Stringent punishment should be imposed on professional drivers who drive commercial vehicles as they seem to be irresponsible and pose a serious threat to life, a Delhi court has observed in a case of drunken driving. The court made the observation while sending a 27-year- old youth to three days in jail for driving under the influence of alcohol w...

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  Drunk Driver Is Like 'Live Suicidal Human Bomb', Says Court

  A drunken driver is just like a "live suicidal human bomb", a Delhi court has observed while upholding a six-day jail sentence awarded to a man for drunken driving.

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  Drunk Driving Makes Automobiles Death Traps: Delhi Court

  A Delhi court has sent a man to four days' imprisonment in a drunk driving case, noting the menace makes the automobiles 'death traps' and the drunken drivers 'lethal weapon'.

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  Person Must Drive Carefully Every Second He is On Road: Delhi Court

  A person who drives a vehicle must know that he should drive it carefully lest anybody loses his life or limb due to his fault, a Delhi court has said while sending a man to jail for driving in a drunken state.

• Community service at a temple once a week for man convicted of drunk driving

  A man, held guilty of driving a truck in a drunken state, has been spared the jail term but ordered by a Delhi court to perform community service at a temple in Delhi once a week for two months.

• Drunk drivers in Chennai face imprisonment instead of fine

  It has been quite the bottled up provision in the law. Magistrates in Chennai have now started using the option in the Motor Vehicles Act to sentence those found guilty of drunken driving to simple imprisonment. This is instead of merely imposing a fine. In the last few weeks, 5 youngsters have been sent to jail for 15 days for driving after downin...

• Man to serve at temple; help traffic cops for drunken driving

  A 29-year-old man, sentenced to seven days in jail for driving in a drunken state, has been spared imprisonment by a Delhi court on the condition that he will assist police at busy traffic signals and serve at a temple.

• Former Miss USA given probation for drunken driving case

  Rima Fakih, the first Arab-American to be crowned Miss USA, has been sentenced to probation and community service in a Michigan drunken driving case. The 26-year-old former beauty queen avoided the possibility of jail time during Wednesday's hearing in Highland Park, an enclave of Detroit. Judge William McConico put her on six months' probation, or...

• Supreme Court sentences Alistair Pereira to three years in prison

  Alistair Anthony Pereira will have to go to jail for three years. The Supreme Court has cancelled his bail and agreed with the Bombay High Court, which had found Mr Pereira guilty of running seven people over while he was drunk in Mumbai.

• Mumbai drunk driving case: Nooriya Haveliwala gets bail

  Nooriya Haveliwala, who was in jail for allegedly killing two people in what's said to be an incident of drunken driving, has got bail.