In the backdrop of the steep rise in crime rate and the use of motor vehicles in most of them, the police have now prepared a list of around 6,000 history-sheeters and proclaimed habitual criminals in the city for their drivers’ licenses to be cancelled depending upon their recent crime record.
This is for the first time the police is resorting to Section 19 (1) (a) of the Motor Vehicles Act. The provision deals with: power of licensing authority to disqualify someone from holding a driving licence or revoke such licence if a licensing authority is satisfied — and after giving the holder of a driving licence an opportunity of being heard — that the concerned person is a habitual criminal or habitual drunkard.
After preparing the list, we are presently in the second phase in which we are verifying who among the 6,000 possess a driver’s license.
A separate team is also looking into their recent crime records, said a senior official of Delhi Traffic Police.