Hyderabad, May 20 -- Hyderabad Traffic Police on Wednesday, May 20, arrested a 40-year-old man for fitting a fake registration number plate on his motorcycle to evade traffic challans, which had in the process been wrongly generated against an innocent vehicle owner.

The accused, Gaikwad Navanath of Gokulnagar, Mallepally, was apprehended after traffic police detected the fake plate during routine enforcement checks and alerted Banjara Hills Police.

Investigation revealed that Navanath had affixed a number plate belonging to a Honda Shine motorcycle owned by one Vikky Paswan of Rajendranagar to his Hero Passion Plus bike. As a result, traffic violation challans meant for Navanath were being generated against Paswan.

A case has been reg...