{"id":48008,"date":"2017-04-27T09:49:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T04:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=48008"},"modified":"2017-04-27T09:49:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T04:19:47","slug":"drunk-driving-court-refuses-set-aside-mans-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/drunk-driving-court-refuses-set-aside-mans-jail-term","title":{"rendered":"Drunk driving: Court refuses to set aside man&#8217;s jail term"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37867\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/driver.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37867\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/drunk-driving-court-reduces-mans-jail-term-to-one-day\/driver\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/driver.jpg?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"275,183\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"driver\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/driver.jpg?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/driver.jpg?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37867 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/driver.jpg?resize=275%2C183&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Drunk driving: Court refuses to set aside man's jail term\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drunk driving: Court refuses to set aside man&#8217;s jail term<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Delhi court has refused to set aside the jail term of a man held guilty of drunken driving, saying inebriated drivers only add up to an already acute problem.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Sessions Judge Sanjeev Kumar denied the relief to a south Delhi resident, who was sentenced to five-day jail term and whose licence was suspended for six months by a magisterial court after he was caught riding his scooty in a drunken state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I agree with the observation of Metropolitan Magistrate that the menace of road accidents in Delhi is increasing day-by-day and such a grim scenario, the driving of persons who are drunken to the extent at this case in hand, only adds to an already acute problem,&#8221; the judge said.<\/p>\n<p>The court, while dismissing the appeal of convict Chandan Kumar Pandey challenging the lower court&#8217;s decision, noted that the permissible limit of alcohol as per the Motor Vehicle Act is 30 mg alcohol per 100ml blood, but the presence of alcohol in the convict&#8217;s blood was six times the permissible limit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having considered the quantity of alcohol in the blood of the appellant (Chandan) as found in breath analyser test, I am of the view that the magistrate had rightly sentenced him&#8230;&#8221; the judge said.<\/p>\n<p>A magisterial court had on March 18, 2016 had sentenced Chandan to five-day imprisonment for drunken driving and imposed a fine of Rs 3,600 on him besides suspending his licence for six months.<\/p>\n<p>In his appeal, the man had sought setting aside of the sentence contending that he may lose his job in case of imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi court has refused to set aside the jail term of a man held guilty of drunken driving, saying inebriated drivers only add up to an already acute problem. 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