Japan police nix traffic ticket for monk who drove wearing ritual robe

FUKUI, Japan - The Fukui prefectural police have decided to cancel the traffic ticket given to a Buddhist monk for driving a car in a ritual robe in the prefecture, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

The police also told the monk, who resides in the prefecture, on Saturday that they would not send papers on him to public prosecutors for violating the traffic regulations, saying, "There's not sufficient evidence, and we were not able to find traffic violation."

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