Many cases of drink and drive keep coming up every day. There have been many reports of serious accidents taking place due to drunken driving by people. However, even after this people are not waking up. However, in such a situation, the Supreme Court, taking strictness in this matter, has given a very important order. While hearing a case, the court observed that only serious accident did not take place, so there should be no leniency in the matter of drink and drive. Drunk driving can turn into playing with people’s lives. Which is a serious offence.
According to the detailed information, it was alleged in the Supreme Court that the truck was rammed by the driver of 12th Battalion of PAC. The truck driver had accused the PAC driver of driving under the influence of alcohol, which was also proved in the later investigation. Due to this the PAC driver was fired for some time by the authorities. However, the PAC driver reached the High Court against this sentence, where the High Court also refused to reduce the sentence. Due to this the driver reached the Supreme Court.
In the Supreme Court, the bench of Justice MR Shah and Justice Vivi Nagaratna gave its decision while making very strong remarks in this matter. The bench of both the judges said that the driver was driving the truck under the influence of alcohol. This has also been proved to be true. But this is a very serious crime, especially driving the truck carrying PAC employees under the influence of alcohol will be considered as the biggest mistake. Luckily there was no serious accident. But if it were, it could have been very serious. In such a situation, the driver had put the lives of the PAC personnel at risk. However, the court had considered the punishment to be a bit excessive for the driver to be fired forever and decided to retire him by changing it. Because he died while on duty. The court has asked his heirs to start all the benefits like proper assistance and pension.