Officials of Regional Transport Officer hit the roads on Thursday to take action against vehicle owners who violated norms, had wrong number plates and illegally installed hooters. Acting on Election Commission’s orders, the department officials launched the drive at MR 10 road and near Ujjain Toll Plaza, and removed number plates of 18 vehicles, which had symbols of different political parties and numbers were written in unauthorised fonts.
“We removed number plates of vehicles and also caught a vehicle in which illegal hooter was installed. A fine of Rs 9000 was collected from vehicles and the owners were warned not to repeat it again,” ARTO Nisha Chouhan said. RTO officials had to face different excuses from vehicle owners and most of them refused to pay fine.
Interestingly, most commuters were giving excuse of not having the cash for paying the fine as some of them had forgot wallets at home and others were having e-wallets or cards. However, excuses given by commuters did not help. They had to pay fine as officials threatened to seize their vehicles.
