Hyderabad, June 5 -- Hyderabad Commissioner of Police VC Sajjanar personally inspected vehicles for fake number plates late on Thursday night, June 4, with as many as 2,149 vehicles being seized for flouting norms.

Sajjanar inspected vehicles as part of "Operation Kavach" conducted in several parts of Hyderabad from 10 pm to midnight. The inspection stressed on number plate tampering.

"Such tampering not only provides an easy escape route for criminals but also poses a serious challenge to law and order by implicating innocent citizens in erroneous e-challans and legal cases," said a press release from the Hyderabad Police.

Police personnel were deployed at important junctions within the Hyderabad Police Commissionerate to detect the u...