Rise in crime has prompted Jamshedpur administration to step up security measures. The police started crackdown on vehicles with tinted glasses and penalising owners.
In the drive, carried out at Bistupur, Sakchi, Jugsalai, Golmuri and Mango, the traffic cops nabbed 500 four-wheelers and slapped penalty after stripping the tinted films off the vehicles.
While the deputy superintendent of police (traffic) Vivekanand Thakur kept on monitoring the exercise of intercepting the vehicles with tinted glass, his subordinates remained busy in stripping the films and also penalising the vehicle owners in question.
The drive which began at 10 am continued till 3 pm, during which about 700 vehicles were checked and 75 of them were penalised. Maximum number of vehicles checked and penalised was in Sakchi, where 37 vehicles were penalised. During the drive the cops would also check whether any fire-arms or other objectionable things were being carried by the vehicle drivers.
“Though we did not get any fire-arms or other objectionable things like liquor bottles, we have accumulated a `75,000 revenue in the form of penalty. From the drive we have earned over ,” said Thakur.
As per the Supreme Court order visual light transmission or VlT should be at least 70 per cent for front and rear screens and 50 per cent for the side windows while it straightway banned use of black films on windows. The Supreme Court order was based on the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989.
Thakur said that in addition to the special drive against use of tinted films on windows the routine drive against traffic violations by two wheelers would also continue simultaneously.