UP journal fined Noida Police for not wearing helmet in car while driving. | Trending

In a bizarre incident, a journal in Uttar Pradesh was fined for not wearing a helmet while driving his car and is now battling to revoke the case. Tushar Saxena is based in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh. (Instagram/the_tushar568) Over nine months ago, Tushar Saxena received a challan for ₹1,000 fine from the police in Gautam Buddh Nagar drict (Noida), 188 km from Rampur, for allegedly not wearing a helmet while driving his four-wheeler, accoring to an NDTV report. Initially, he thought it was a make and ignored it, only to receive a follow-up email and a message. “I have never driven my car to the NCR area. And if there’s any rule that says we have to wear a helmet inside a car, then the authorities must give this to me in writing,” Saxena was quoted as saying NDTV. The police warned him that he would have to appear in court if he fails to pay up. The Rampur-based television journal bought his white Hyundai car in March last year. He is now hoping that the Noida Police would cancel the case against him. Man wears helmet while driving car in unique protestA similar case was reported from Bharatpur, Rajasthan in 2017, when a man was makenly fined for not wearing a helmet while driving his Maruti Omni minivan. Vishnu Sharma, who was 23 at that time, was stopped the traffic police on the Agra-Jaipur national highway for checking. A constable fined him for not wearing helmet, he said. To mark his protest in a humorous way, the driver began wearing a helmet while driving his car. “I showed them all documents, but they insed on imposing fine. I had fastened the seat belt,” he said. “I don’t want to be fined again,” he said, when asked why he used a helmet while driving a car. The policeman admitted that it was a make. “I wanted to fine him for not using seat belt, but makenly wrote ‘not wearing helmet’,” constable Prahlad Singh told Hindustan Times.