Police to crack down on bikes without no plates

KOLHAPUR: Taking a lesson from the recent attack on veteran communist leader Govind Pansare, the city have decided to take action against the motorists riding their two-wheelers without number plates. According to police officials, the assailants who shot at Pansare were riding on a motorcycle that did not have a number plate.

Reetesh Kumar, inspector general (Kolhapur range), said that instructions will be given to all the police stations in the district to take action against such motorists. The drive will also help in curbing the chain snatching menace in the district.

“Unidentified men who shot at Pansare on February 16 were riding on a motorcycle without a number plate. The eyewitnesses who saw them have provided us their description and the colour of the motorcycle, but they did not find any number plate on the bike. Information about the number plate would have given us some clues about the assailants,” Kumar said.

“We have received information that there are many motorists, especially college going youths, who are riding motorcycles without number plates or fancy number plates. We have decided to take strict action against such motorists and will a launch drive in the district to find these vehicles plying on the road and take action against them,” he said.

“Two cops from every police station will be assigned the special task to keep a watch on the motorcycles along with the city traffic department. The drive will include surprise checking at colleges in the city to find youths using bikes without number plates or having fancy plates and fine them. We will also take action against the number plate makers if they take orders of making fancy number plates. The makers will be given a prescribed format about the norms of standard number plates; we will ask them to follow these norms strictly,” Kumar said.

“This will also help in keeping a check on the chain snatchers who most of the times use bikes without number plates while committing the crime,” he added.

Unidentified men who shot at Pansare on February 16 were riding on a motorcycle without a number plate. The eyewitnesses who saw them have provided us their description and the colour of the motorcycle, but they did not find any number plate on the bike

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Police to crack down on bikes without no plates