A sessions court on Monday stayed a trial court’s unprecedented order directing a youth, who was caught driving a car in an inebriated state, to assist policemen in traffic management.
Admitting a revision petition filed against the lower court order, Additional Sessions Judge S N Gupta put a stay on the verdict and summoned the trial court records related to the case.
The court fixed the next date of hearing on July 10 in the revision petition filed by the Delhi police.
Deepak Gupta, 18, who had pleaded guilty to driving a car in an intoxicated state, was on June five asked by Metropolitan Magistrate Gautam Manan to help traffic police at Kalkaji circle between 10:00 am to 1.30 pm daily for 10 days beginning Sunday. The court had held Gupta, a resident of Ratia Marg, Sangam Vihar, guilty under various provisions including Section 279 (rash driving on a public way) of the IPC and also imposed a fine of Rs 3,000 on him.On receiving a PCR call on February 16 that a Santro car had been turned turtle at Mayapuri D Block, the police reached the spot to rescue the man trapped inside the vehicle.
After the police found that the man was driving the vehicle in a drunken state, they booked him under various provisions of the penal code. Three months after the incident, the man pleaded guilty before the court, which awarded him with a kind of punishment, mostly common in Western countries.
Dressed in a T-shirt and jeans, Deepak was on Sunday seen regulating the traffic at Paras Chowk in Kalkaji area.