{"id":78624,"date":"2025-06-25T15:35:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T10:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=78624"},"modified":"2025-06-25T15:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T10:35:58","slug":"punjab-launches-crackdown-on-fancy-illegal-number-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-launches-crackdown-on-fancy-illegal-number-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab launches crackdown on fancy, illegal number plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Lahore<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/nepra-approves-reduction-in-electricity-tariff\/\"> City Traffic Police<\/a> has declared a citywide crackdown on those vehicles that are running on duplicate, fancy, or non-standard number plates. Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Dr. Athar Waheed directed a three-day awareness campaign before the launch of the enforcement drive.<\/p>\n<p>As per CTO Waheed, from Friday, cases will be filed against those using <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-govt-launches-e-auction-for-custom-number-plates\/\">illegal number plates<\/a>. In the run-up to the crackdown over the next three days, car owners caught with non-standard or modified plates will be warned and not booked immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea of this first campaign is to create awareness among the citizens and provide them with a chance to adhere to the rules and regulations before taking legal action,&#8221; said Waheed.<\/p>\n<p>He also assured that the crackdown would not be restricted to drivers, as against manufacturers of false number plates, action will also be taken.<\/p>\n<p>CTO Waheed cautioned that alteration of the license plates to escape e-challans is a punishable crime and will be dealt with accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>The traffic police have appealed to all citizens to make sure that their cars have officially sanctioned number plates to pre-empt legal inconveniences and help ensure better enforcement of traffic regulations in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Lahore City Traffic Police has declared a citywide crackdown on those vehicles that are running on duplicate, fancy, or non-standard number plates. Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Dr. Athar Waheed directed a three-day awareness campaign before the launch of the enforcement drive. As per CTO Waheed, from Friday, cases will be filed against those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":46419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15532,29716,29717],"class_list":["post-78624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-city-traffic-police","tag-crackdown-on-fancy-number-plates","tag-illegal-numberplates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78633,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78624\/revisions\/78633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}