At a recent event in a city college, top police commissioner Sanjay Barve and Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Madhukar Pandey addressing youth at a panel discussion on partnering with them for a better tomorrow, touched upon the subject of traffic fines.

This was just days before the new, stringent and burn-a-hole-in-the-pocket fines were going to be imposed in the city.

At that time, the top cops stressed that the government had not imposed these fines to earn revenue. No government will use fines as revenue, they said, but these were scaled up exorbitantly maybe, for one straightforward aim, to get all vehicle users to adhere to rules.