Tollywood actor Nikhil Siddharth is the latest to fall into the hands of Hyderabad's traffic cops who have taken the latest drive against drunken driving in all earnestness. The young actor of 'Happy Days' fame was caught driving his Skoda Laura, his girl friend by his side, and reportedly high on spirits. Siddharth had recently returned from shooting for his forthcoming film from Pattaya, Thailand. On Friday night, after hanging out at a lounge in Jubilee Hills and consuming liquor, he was returning home, when traffic cops caught him near the NTR Trust Bhavan. Banjara Hills traffic inspector Srikanth said they stopped Siddharth's overspeeding vehicle and tested him with the hand-held breath analyser. It revealed an alocohol content of 37 mg of 100 ml, he said and added that police book drunken drivers with an alcohol level of .3 mg of 100 ml. Siddharth, however, told Express that he is a teetotaler and that police did not book any case against him. "Some of my friends took my Skoda car. They might have been caught by the police. I was not involved in the incident," Nikhil said. Meanwhile, the traffic police said they issued a notice to Siddharth to appear before the Fourth Metropolitan Majistrate on Monday afternoon. "We recovered his Scoda Laura and shifted it to the Banjara Hills police station. He will appear before the court on Monday," Srikanth said.
*October 17, 2011: Film Actor Navdeep and his girlfriend Saru went to the Excess Club and Lounge at the Novotel Hotel along with a friend Jayavardhan and allegedly thrashed an engineering student in an inebriated condition at Madhapur. *On May 8, 2010: Navdeep was arrested for drunken driving by Banjara Hills Traffic police. Later, he paid off penalty to the cop.
* KT-4000P hand-held breath alcohol analysers: Police book drunken drivers when the measurement content of alcohol displayed is at least .3 mg of 100 ml. The KT 4000P breath analysers, made in Taiwan, offer professional users precise and quick breath alcohol analysis in a user-friendly and compact form. With its wide range of possible configurations, the hand-held instrument can easily be adapted to meet different international regulations and guidelines. The KT 4000 P, specific to alcohol, is unaffected by other possible breath contaminations as it is designed with an electrochemical and fuel cell sensor. The breath analyser has printer and it provides the measurement content of alcohol after testing the drunken driver. It has a colour LCD touch screen and comes with a memory capacity to store 4,000 test results. The data from the device can be downloaded to a printer or PC.
By Mouli Mareedu
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