A car driver fined for not wearing a helmet

You might not believe this, but a man was challaned for driving his car without a helmet in Meerut. Not only this, but the cop even added his Maruti Suzuki Swift’s license plate number on the challan for the fine.

This incident took place on the 24^th of May in Meerut when Shailender Singh was taking this son to the school and was stopped by a traffic cop. He had asked for the car papers and when everything was in order, the cop wasn’t letting him go. The driver approached the Senior Superintendent of Police has ordered an enquiry on this issue.

“I was getting late as I had to take my 4-month-old son to a doctor but the cop kept holding my car for some reason. After I had a heated discussion with him, he, to my surprise, challaned me for not wearing a helmet.

This is ridiculous. I never knew I had to don a helmet while driving a car,” 43-year-old Singh told Times of India.

When reporters spoke to Shivraj Singh, the traffic cop in-charge who had filed the challan. He mentioned, “We stopped Shailender Singh because we found him talking on the mobile phone while driving. We had to therefore challan him. I asked the chowki in-charge of Hasanpur, Bachan Singh, to issue a challan.

However, the official, by mistake, charged him for not wearing a helmet whereas the challan should have been issued for talking on the mobile phone while driving. It was an error and not done deliberately.”