Srinagar, Aug 1: “School boys... In any way they look so. Triple riding. No helmet. No license. Dangerously driving... Suggest the punishment… For their parents even.” This what the City’s Traffic police head Maqsood-Ul-Zaman posted on his Facebook wall along with the picture of three accused schoolchildren.
 The trio, as per the witnesses, was caught near the tourist hub of Dalgate by Zaman himself when the schoolchildren were allegedly heading for a “bunk”.

THE REACTION
 Interestingly, most of the netizens agreed that the parents were to be equally blamed for “having spoilt their kids.”
 Commented Irshad Ashraf: “Spare the kids, their parents to be blamed for the ignorance, and the school authorities need to be penalized for entertaining students with such indecent stuff of uniform discipline.”
 Boya Khan another netizen in a typical net lingo wrote: “Y to spare them their head should b shaved and their parents should be sent to counselling so that they will learn how to guide their children.”
 Former SMC corporator Tanvir Sadiq suggested some penalty. “A huge fine from their parents! A written guarantee, let the bike stay at the station for one month and finally a pic in the newspaper… They will never do it again.”
 “Seize their bike and their parents should be warned......strange to see parents are more negligent than the erring students..,” said a netizen Khan Raja Tasleem.
 Said Aarif Shah some net pal of Maqsood: “My suggestion is that they shouldn’t be prosecuted...they should be put to public service like take their service for week in traffic management @ Lal-Chowk. I have seen this in Delhi where kids like these were caught in similar position and then put to public service....but their parents should be fined heavily.”

THE DEADLY TREND
 Pertinently for the past few years driving by minor has been on surge in the City while many deadly accidents also keep taking place because of the immature hands on the driver’s seat.
 “Yes, this is the reality but what more can we do then fine such spoilt lot?” argued Zaman who said he frequently comes across such cases.
 “But why I put their picture on the Facebook was that they were simply shabbily dressed… They just didn’t look like decently attired students. How do parents allow their kids to leave home like yankies in those low hip trousers?” he added.

THE COACHING CENTRE HUB
 Minor on the wheels are mostly seen outside coaching centres, a hub of which happens to be Airport Road alone.
 In the Barzulla Hyderpora stretch atleast three persons have died in such accidents while people mostly blame in on the parents of the “spoilt lot.”
 Leave apart driving, the minors are often seen performing acrobatics on the wheels.

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