The traffic police booked 196 motorists on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday for drunken driving.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) K. Mahendra Patrudu said that 40 teams were on the job with breath analysers at 27 spots in the city.
The ADCP said that out of the 196 cases, over 60 per cent was registered on the Beach Road stretch between Tenneti Park and Rushikonda.