Last day of the year and I've been going around in circles thinking about an amazing piece of statistic published yesterday by Mumbai police. Out of a total of 12,536 people booked for drunken driving in city streets since June 20, only 3 have been women!
In that, there are two things which primarily amaze me. One the obvious difference between sexes. You read that right, its not 3% (which might have been reasonable, given the % of women drivers in the first place) but THREE! And that given the fact that Mumbai police categorically denied any chances of them being lenient towards the fairer sex. Knowing the typical Mumbai mamu, there was no reason for putting in that explanation in the first place. I cannot imagine any of them letting go female motorists they find at nakas at night- slightly tipsy, or otherwise. But, getting back to my earlier chain of thoughts, it really does settle the debate about the most responsible sex doesn't it?
The second sobering thought was not so obvious. A quick look at Mumbai police's website(http://www.trafficpolicemumbai.org/facts.html) shows something more alarming. The total number of people booked under drunken driving in the whole year of 2006 was a measly 1022! In percentage terms, that is a jump of 1126 % in order bookings for the police within a span of a year. This for me is cause for serious concern because either liqour manufacturers had a very-very successful year in the city, or our police force was asleep to this evil earlier.
While i'm all for police activism in curbing such a social menace that drunken driving is, a look at the list of penalties opens up new possibilities(http://www.trafficpolicemumbai.org/driving.html). Drunken driving is the offense carrying the highest possible pure monetary penalty of Rs. 3000!
Cheers!
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