In an attempt to curb crime on wheels, city traffic police has re-launched a crackdown on bikers without properly displaying registration numbers on their vehicles.
On the directive of East Singhbhum Senior Superintendent of Police Amol V Homkar, the drive was carried out at Sakchi and Jugsalai police stations due to rising cases of bike thefts and crime committed by bike-borne criminals.Around 35 two-wheelers without proper display of registration numbers were seized near Jugsalai police station and around 30 bikes for same offence were seized near Sakchi police station.
Vehicles that did not have registration numbers displayed clearly at the front and in the rear had to pay Rs500 fine.Traffic DSP Rakesh Mohan Sinha said that directive has been issued to all the five traffic police stations at Jugsalai, Mango, Sakchi, Bistupur and Golmuri to seize vehicles without proper display of registration numbers along with routine drive against bikers without helmets.
The offenders are fined for violation of Section 179 of Motors Vehicles Act. Usually youths avoid writing the registration number on the front portion as mandatory by Regional Transport Authority. The traffic DSP also said that from Frday they would seize bikes using red-blue on their registration number plates. These are used by relatives of police personnel to avoid traffic police checking drive.
“We have seen that most of the crime in the city is committed by bike-borne criminals. We are strictly conforming to the guidelines laid out in the Central Motor Vehicles Act for number plates and first time offenders are fined Rs500 under Section 179 of Motor Vehicles Act (1988) for breach of Government order,” said the traffic DSP.
A senior police official said a majority of fancy number plates were being found on two-wheelers of school and college students and cars belonging to activists of political outfits.The youngsters are going for flashy number plates to draw attention of crowd, which trouble the police personnel at the time of their duty.