HYDERABAD: Police booked 322 persons, including the son of a Union minister of state, during a special drive against rash driving on some stretches of Banjara Hills and Jubilee Hills on Saturday. Many of the motorists were hitting speeds above 100 kmph during daytime on these stretches.

The son of the Union minister of state from Andhra Pradesh was booked for driving his Porsche car at over 100 kmph.

The Banjara traffic police said 250 cases were registered by conducting a drive on both sides of the road. Similarly, in Jubilee Hills the drive was conducted at Road No. 45, and 122 cases were registered. Majority of the motorists caught were driving high-end luxury cars at high speed.

The special drive was taken up using speed guns and it was done between 12.30 pm and 4 pm and the traffic police nabbed those motorists who were travelling above 60 kilometres per hour.

During the drive, the Union minister's son and a relative of a former minister of the united AP government were issued challans, which the motorists have to pay online. However, the traffic police were tightlipped about the details of the two high-profile offenders, who have to pay Rs 1,400 for plying beyond the permissible speed.

"The special drive will continue as there is need to control speed at which motorists are travelling,'' Banjara Hills traffic inspector Uma Maheshwar Rao said.