Cops Warn Shopkeeper, Vehicle Owners Against Fancy Number Plates, Modification Of Silencers

Pimpri, November 3, 2020: It is a criminal offence to acquire fancy number plates and replace a silencer on the vehicle. Now onwards, shop dealers who facilitate silencer replacement and fancy number plate makers will be charged with strict action, stated vehicle department’s assistant commissioner of police Shrikant Disle.

Many criminals use vehicles with fake number plates or fancy number plates. Therefore, such vehicles and accused are not found immediately. The police have stated that number plates which aren’t clearly read or understood fall under the offence of interfering with the motor vehicle law. The changed silencers of two-wheelers (especially bullet silencers) make a sound like firecrackers in public places, creating panic among the citizens.

Number plates should be prepared as per motor vehicle rules and norms and no fancy number plates are allowed. When preparing the number plate, the dealer should keep a photocopy of the relevant vehicle document or RC in their register. For this, a separate register should be maintained and vehicle records should be kept in it according to the ‘number plate’. The traffic police officials have also instructed and appealed the same to all the shopkeepers who make number plates by the traffic police, stated the officials.

The driver/owner of a two-wheeler garage should not alter the original mould of any two-wheeler without the prior permission of the Department of Transportation. Bullet silencers in particular should not be replaced. If the vehicle has tampered illegally, then legal action will be taken against the concerned establishment and the driver/owner of the establishment stated traffic police officials. Nonetheless, if any fancy number plates are observed instead of the real number plate, the offence will be registered against the concerned people.

It is an offence to make unauthorised alterations to vehicles and to violate the number plate standard of vehicles under the Central Motor Vehicle Rules. Therefore, the rules must be strictly followed. So far, the action was being taken against the drivers, now action will also be taken against shopkeepers as well, warned the police.