Bengaluru: The city traffic police who had started a drive against the fancy number plates at the end of last year have booked over three lakh vehicle owners for violations.
Of them, over two lakh cases have been booked in four months this year.
Fancy number plates make it difficult for traffic police to identify the numbers in case of any violations and also for the public to report if any crimes occur.
The drive, which was launched in October 2017, also covered shrill horns and modified silencers after people complained about loud noise from vehicles.
Till April 30, the police have registered 3,49,611 cases of defective number plates, 28,490 cases of shrill horns and 5,689 cases of modified/defective silencers. Last year, 2,44,174 cases were booked against defective number plate, while this year, within four months, 2,05,572 cases have been booked.
In 2017, 30,112 cases were booked under shrill horns category and till April 30, 9,174 such cases were booked. Last year, 5,053 cases were booked under defective/modified silencers and this year till April 30, 2,586 cases have been registered. A senior traffic police officer said that all
vehicles with fancy number plates with graffiti or drawings, numbers in regional languages, including those belonging to government departments, and those that carried names of departments and designations on plates were booked and were made to remove the number plates on the spot.
As per Article 50 and 51 of the Central Motor Vehicles Act, 1989 vehicles registered in Karnataka should have KA code followed by the code of the jurisdictional Regional Transport Office.
The words should be in English capital letters, the numerals should be in Arabic style and the second line should have the vehicle registration numbers, he said.
