SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday seized a school van for overcrowding as well as posing safety threat to the school children in central Kashmir’s Budgam district.
A police spokesman in a statement said that today morning, a MARUTI omni (Van) bearing registration number JK01P-4582 overcrowded with school children was intercepted at IG road near Peerbagh by police and it was found that though the seating capacity of the vehicle was seven only but the same was packed with 13 school children hence posing serious threat to them.
The spokesman said that the vehicle was seized under relevant provisions of M.V. Act and the school children were dropped at school (Al-Mustaqeem Islamic School Hyderpora) in an alternate vehicle.
SSP Budgam requests for active participation of school authorities, parents and general public to abide by the law and make our roads safer for school children and general public,” said police spokesman in a statement.
