The city police have started prosecuting vehicles with defective number plates and the ones that have registration numbers written in fonts that are difficult to read when the vehicles are in motion.
Police said such vehicles, when found violating traffic rules, often result in faulty citation cases, causing inconvenience to motorists who get falsely implicated.
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The police have prosecuted 2,252 motorists over the past 26 days for using defective number plates.
“The number plates that do not conform to the standard size and font are deemed defective. Among those are the ones on which the digits and the letters are written in a font that is difficult to read when the vehicle moves,” said a traffic officer posted in south Calcutta.
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Today is the last date for registration of high-security number-plates
Vehicle owners caught without high-security registration plates (HSRP) and colour-coded fuel stickers will have to pay a hefty fine after the deadline ends.
NEW DELHI: If you live in Delhi-National Capital Region (Delhi-NCR) and own a vehicle, then beware as today (April 15, 2021) is the last date for high-security number plates (HSRP) registration
Vehicle owners caught without high-security registration plates (
HSRP) and colour-coded fuel stickers will have to pay a hefty fine after the deadline ends. The Delhi Traffic Police, complying with the government’s new amendments to the
Motor Vehicles Act (MVA), has been penalising defaulters under an enforcement drive.
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New Delhi: Noida vehicle owners must take a note that the Deadline to get high-security number plates is just a week away.
With the government tightening its noose around mandatory High Security Registration Plate (HSRP), the Gautam Budh Nagar district (part of NCR) of Uttar Pradesh has not seen a very optimistic volume of vehicles seeking HSRP.
As on first week of February, only 21 percent of the vehicles were beig put on high security number plates in Gautam Budh Nagar district. 7.5 lakh vehicles have been registered in Gautam Budh Nagar, Out of which only 1.60 lakh vehicles have high security number plate, data in February showed.