Indian police have set up an all-women squad to catch female drink drivers, due to concerns that men pressure their partners to drive home after a night out knowing they are unlikely to be stopped.
Bharti Arora, traffic police chief of Gurgaon, a satellite city outside New Delhi where many multinational firms have based their Indian operations, said the operation would start on Wednesday.
Arora said the team of 24 women officers had been established as policemen were reluctant to stop female drivers and subject them to on-the-spot tests due to cultural taboos about men confronting women.
"They have been taking advantage of the fact that women drivers are hardly checked but now we will go after them," she told AFP.
"The all-women police teams will be deployed at popular pubs, restaurants and shopping malls."
Arora said about 200 men had been booked for drink driving so far this year in Gurgaon but not a single woman.