The Mumbai Traffic Police have busted a gang of vehicle dealers using bogus Trade Certificate (TC) number (a temporary number) MH-03-TC-337 and selling up to 330 two-wheelers illegally across the eastern suburbs from January 2016. The number was officially issued to Hindustan Co-operative Bank Ltd, Mulund by the Wadala RTO, investigation revealed.

On February 16, a woman riding a Hero Pleasure bike bearing no MH-03-TC-337 was stopped by the traffic police for entering a No Entry zone at Derasar lane in Ghatkopar East. When the cops checked the e-challans issued against the number, they found a whopping Rs 1,24,700 as pending dues. When probed, the rider revealed that she had bought the bike only eight days ago from Archana Motors, Vikhroli East by paying Rs 67,000 and she had not violated any traffic rules yet.