A fake number plate making factory and the whole seller is being caught in Lahore. FIR is registered in the police station. A number of raw and readymade fake number plates are seized on the spot. Hundreds of Punjab police logo stickers and seven boxes of fake English alphabets to make the number plates are also spotted. It would be Pakistan’s first ever FIR that is documented against the fake number plates and Director of mortars Lahore will take up investigation of the case.
According to officials Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan on April 1, 2017, ordered action in opposition to vehicles plying with no registration number plates.
Using vehicles without accurate registration number is a hazard to security and serenity. The minister issued the orders after spotting vehicles plying without proper registration number plates.
Now a day, one of the leading causes of crime in Lahore is vehicles without any number plate or with fake number plates.
Moreover, most of the criminals travel on the motorcycles with false number plates. According to the Motor Vehicles Ordinance, no unregistered automobile can play on the road. Otherwise, the vehicle should not only be taken into charge, but punishment and plenty also be imposed. With the collaboration of Excise and Taxation Department and Lahore police under the Chief Minister Special Monitoring Unit if anyone breaches the rules of number plate then strict action would be performed in opposition to such vehicles. But no fruitful result was acquired by this action.
Other than this, the Dealers Vehicles Registration System was also introduced in the major cities of the Punjab for the related reason. According to this system, license number plate and the registration book would be issued at transaction point of the vehicles. Without registration from dealer showroom, No one will be allowed to take the vehicle.