By IANS,
New Delhi : In one of the biggest crackdowns on drunken driving in the last few years, more than 18,000 drivers were prosecuted and nearly 3,000 jailed in 2011, Delhi Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta said Friday.
Addressing the annual press conference of Delhi Police, Gupta said that “18,073 people were prosecuted in 2011 whereas the figure was 11,388 in 2010.”
“Driving licenses of 2,212 people were suspended and 2,960 offenders were imprisoned,” he added.
According to Gupta, the prosecutions were an “all time high”.