Hyderabad: Reckless drivers hide number plates
Hyderabad: Reckless drivers are deliberately hiding their number plates by twisting blocking it from the camera view.
Drivers intend to escape from enforcement officials by temporarily covering the vehicle’s number plate so that some numbers are not visible.
However if caught, their vehicle can be seized. They escape by saying that it happened recently due to an accident and they forgot to fix it. If they are doing it intentionally, cops are booking criminal cases on them. Naveen Kumar private employee, social worker said, “Many drivers want to escape from challans. They drive recklessly and violate traffic rules. The police should take stringent action on the violators like this and escaping the e challans.”
D. Vamshi, a commuter said, “There is a possibility of chain snatchers, hit and run cases or drunken drivers escaping because of such plates.”
Traffic cops are booking the cases on violators if the plate is tampered or bent, blocked with stickers or repainted. and they are removing them. If the vehicle owner fix the proper number plate only traffic police are handing over the vehicle. In seriously cases where they deliberately try to obscuring the number plate the cops are booking the criminal cases also.
There are three divisional enforcement teams in Cyberabad, weekly two or three days they are especially conducting drives on the vehicle plying on roads with manipulated number plates. These teams keep on change their location and bookcases on the violators added Kumar.