Starting today, officials from the traffic police department will be penalising vehicle owners flaunting numberplates in the Devanagri script. The initiative was taken considering the growing trend among vehicles owners of using numberplates in Devanagri script, which is illegal as per the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989.

Till date action was taken against motorists using fancy numberplates. A total of 26,852 motorists, including two wheelers and four wheelers, were penalised for flaunting fancy numberplates from January to August. Fine worth Rs 28.5 lakh was collected from the offenders.