Panic over fuel supply chokes Hyderabad roads on March 25, traffic grinds to a crawl during morning rush hour

Long queues to refill vehicles with fuel spilled aggressively onto Hyderabad’s main roads by Wednesday (March 25, 2026) morning, turning key stretches into bottlenecks and forcing traffic police into continuous on-ground regulation to keep the city moving.

As vehicles crowded around petrol pumps and extended onto carriageways, peak-hour traffic slowed sharply across several junctions. The police personnel worked to compress the swelling lines into single-file or two-line queues, attempting to carve out space for traffic even as the volume continued to build.