LAHORE, Oct 24: The Punjab government plans to introduce a new legislation for stopping wheelie, says law minister Raja Basharat on the floor of the house. The minister said normal traffic laws had failed to check the menace as they treated wheelie as a bailable offence and could not put up a proper deterrence.

He said during the last one year, police had fined 11,482 people and arrested 11,807 others for wheelie. It also recovered Rs1 million as fine. There was a need to make wheelie a non-bailable offence. But, only the federal government could make such a change in the Pakistan Penal Code, he said.

The Punjab government, on its part, would introduce a fresh legislation in the house in the next session, he assured.