Businesman arrested by Jayanagar Traffic cops for using fake designation plate on his SUV to throw his weight around,More than 100 defaulters fined for hiding number plates to rid with challans

Pramesh S Jain 

BTP won hearts of Netizens for their excellent work to teach lesson to the defaulters and curb the menace 

The Jayanagar traffic police on Monday arrested a 26-year-old businessman who was moving around in his SUV with fake designation plate to throw his weight around.

The accused has been identified as,Zaffar Iqbal a resident of HSR layout a businessman by profession.

Senior officer told reporters,The accused Zaffar Iqbal,resident of HSR Layout was caught along with his car following direction from the city police Commissioner.

A team of police led by Srinivasamurthy BG from Jayanagar traffic police track down the accused through the car registration number and arrested him.

The accused was carrying a Human Rights Logo along with the designation plate containing “International Human Rights and Crime Control,Govt of India”.

Misusing the name of the government for his personal gain.The accused did not gave any response on why he was carrying,Srinivasmurthy,in his complaint to the HSR Layout police, said .

The accused along wit his car has been handed over to the HSR Layout police who charged him under cheating and impersonation.

Kuldeep Kumar R Jain,DCP, traffic West Division,warned motorists against misuse any government logo and demanded special drive to check on faulty number plates.

He even said a surprise drive against the defaulters is going on for hiding,or removing number plate of covering it up with chewing gum or with stickers to violate traffic rules and hoodwink cops is continuously going on from past four months around 100 defaulters have been identified and fined across West Division.

We have formed special squads to check on this a special drive is going as and when we get information from responsible citizen our team rushes to spot and wheel clamp the vehicle and once the rider comes we take them to police station and issue a police notice and ask them to furnish why they have removed number plate and a Surety bond of Rs.100 should be collected from these defaulters and the outstanding fine amount should be collected.

He even said that our cops will be on rounds and they will identify the bikes which are altered with number plate on roads,streets they will clamp your vehicle if it is in parking or any roadside as per rules when you take your bike out or park anywhere number plate should be compulsorily fixed on both sides if not the defaulters vehicle will be wheel clamped and after thorough inquiry the said vehicles will be released as per procedure.

Recently Rajajinagar traffic cops received information from our informant that a vehicle is parked near Rama Mandir with no number plate in the rear side within minutes the Cobra staffs as,Prasanna,Maheshwarappa,who are very pro-active to curb this menace rushed to spot with ASI,Govind Rao and other staff and when they checked the rider had pending fines amount of Rs.75,000 and to avoid challans and hoodwink cops he did this says Netizens on twitter and appreciation were flown on twitter and other social media platforms from all corners.

In some cases we call their parents and inform them about their mistake and give them a chance to improve themselves if any body gets caught with second time as repeated we book case against them under 107 Cr PC said Kuldeep Kumar R Jain.

Mostly students do this type of folding the number plates,and other things by hiding the number plate with sticker in one rare case magadi road traffic cops caught a miscreant who used to put double sticker on the number plate as whenever he wants he can put and then remove this person was caught by Magadi road traffic cops and was made to clear his all fines which he had on his vehicle.

The highest vehicles has been wheel clamped by Rajajinagar and Magadi Road traffic police station staff.

Nearly more than 50 vehicles has been identified and wheel clamped to Defaulters vehicles and many have been released after completing the formalities and second highest in wheel clamping is Magadi traffic.

Drive against defaulters for Defective no. plate continues. The no. plates are wantedly damaged, hidden by mask or by use of chewing gum & white paint on a part of it. Thank you #bengalurians for immense support. In last 4 weeks more than 100 defaulters identified & fined Kuldeep Kumar R Jain said in his tweet.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner CH Pratap Reddy has appreciated Special Commissioner Traffic, Dr MA Saleem,Joint commissioner of police Traffic,MN Anucheth,DCP, Traffic West, Kuldeep Kumar R Jain,ACPs,as,Gopalkrishna Gowda,Nagesh,Srinivas,with PIs,as,Smt.Shivarathna,Sreenivas GT,Naveen Kumar,PSI,as,Nanjegowda,Srinivasmurthy BG,ASI,Shivakumar,Govind Rao,staff as,Dhananjaya,Hanumantha K, Nagaraj,Prasanna,Maheshwarappa,Bheemana,Manjunath,Manjanna Manju,Hanumantha Kuri,Mahesh,Anand Takkannavar, Gururaj Hukkeri,Mahesh,Natesha JM,has been appreciated for their tireless work and efforts in identifying the vehicles which are hoodwinking the cops and violating traffic rules to get rid of challans, for the exemplary and meticulous investigation and work all the staff has been appreciated and a special reward will be given to whole team he added.