kolkata two deaths two serious injuries 97 bike seizures and a major fracas at park street that needed the personal intervention of dc south murlidhar sharma to stop an inebriated suv driver from assaulting cops summed up the road scene on thursday night the new years eve even as kolkatans partied till late on thursday night certain roads in the city and its suburbs turned in to a haven of drink driving despite police crackdown worse the bikers broke rules despite being warned that the law enforcers wont show any tolerance according to police sources two bikers at sonarapur lost their lives in a suspected case of drink driving another accident in front of eco park saw two other bikers hitting a divider and ending up at the charnok hospital in a serious condition in the park street area alone 55 bikes were seized in all 47 arrests were made from the same area while the entire kolkata saw 326 arrests a figure much higher than the christmas eve the bidhannagar and barrackpore cops have arrested around 15 persons on charges of riding bikes in inebriated condition in a couple of cases revellers even alleged molestation by some drunken men two ips officers joint cp headquarters supratim sarkar and dc sharma had to personally intervene to stop arguments turning in to brawls at park street sharma even chased down violators a total of 97 bikes were seized across the city following drink driving and triple riding the biggest incident from park street was reported around 210 am when a couple the man was reportedly under the influence of alcohol and at the wheels demanded a crossover at park street when the cops refused he allegedly shouted at foulmouthed them the cops promptly slapped ipc section 353 stopping a public servant from carrying out his duty elsewhere around park street cops had to wield lathis to control bikers who tried to hold mock racing on the streets right up to park circus apart from drink driving drunken brawls were also reported from several parties at nicco park a section of revellers clashed with cops after alleging that they were refused liquor and food as was mentioned in the pass the nicco park authorities though claimed there was a minor brawl in which some people under the influence of liquor were involved at swabhumi off em bypass a police sub inspector and an assistant sub inspector were allegedly assaulted after a brawl between some inebriated men two persons including a dj has been arrested in this connection police said they have chosen to impound vehicles rather than arresting the drivers in a number of cases even when a case makes it to court it can take years argue jurists since the method of evidence collection is very complex public prosecutor tarun chatterjee and advocate partha pratim dutta agree that the salman khan case dragged on too long a common thing in lower courts there are procedural