Only 20 punished for not giving right of way in Delhi

Delhi Police has been able to prosecute only 20 persons for not giving right of way to emergency vehicles so far this year despite claiming to go <g data-gr-id="17">strict</g> against drivers not making way for ambulances and other essential vehicles.

All these prosecutions have taken place during the Green Corridor operations arranged for transferring live human organs, mostly between airport and hospitals in which the police installed cameras on the dash boards of the ambulances for assessment of the operation.

During these operations, a few violators ended up getting prosecuted after their registration numbers got captured in the assessment footage, said a senior police official.

“It is an offence to not give way to emergency vehicles. For prosecuting such errant drivers, there have to be cameras installed at the dashboards of the emergency vehicles, so that the registration numbers of violators gets captured, which can later be reported to the police,” said Muktesh Chander, Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic).