RTO officials on Monday detained two buses of a private college in Bhubaneswar for violating the traffic norms under the new Motor Vehicles (MV) Act.
The owner of two buses was fined a total amount of Rs 51,000 for using the vehicles without registration numbers, fitness certificates (FCs), violating air and noise pollution, using the vehicles without permits or violating permit conditions.
The RTO officials stopped the vehicles owned by the Nalanda Institute of Technology during checking at CRP Square. They issued challans of Rs 25,500 each against the college principal for flouting the traffic norms.
As the drivers of the buses failed to show valid FCs and RPs (road permits), the officials detained the vehicles under Section 207 of the MV Act.