The Kolkata Police will dispatch the “no cap, no fuel” crusade from December 8 to February 5 as a component of endeavors to check fatalities in light of bike mishaps.

“No petroleum siphons in the city will offer petroleum to any such bike rider who shows up at the petroleum siphon without a head protector or is conveying a pillion rider without a cap,” said a cop.

“We invite the standard. However, in some cases it gets hard to implement such a standard without police security,” said a petroleum siphon proprietor in Kolkata.

Almost 50% of over 1.8 million vehicles enlisted in Kolkata in 2019 were bikes. The quantity of bikes went up from around 83,00,00 to around 93,00,00 somewhere in the range of 2017 and 2019.

“It has been seen that the quantity of cases including bike riders riding without head protectors and conveying pillion riders without caps has gone up complex in spite of indictments,” said a subsequent cop.

The police enrolled around 93,855 instances of rash driving in 2019. One out of each three such imprudent driving cases, around 32,600 cases, included bikes.

As per the police’s yearly survey, they sought after 96,00,00 indictments in 2017. Around 11,000 included infringement of the protective cap rule. The quantity of such indictments went up to over 2.1 million out of 2019. It included more than 60,00,00 cases including bike drivers without protective caps.

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