Hyderabad, May 2 -- A 22-year-old resident of Chanchalguda has been booked by Saidabad police for using a fake number plate on his unregistered bike to avoid traffic challans.

The accused, Syed Hussain Mehdi, had purchased his Hero Dio scooter in 2019 but failed to register it at the concerned Regional Transport Office. Instead, he used a fake vehicle number plate (TS11EK0593) to avoid traffic challans and evade finance agencies, the police said.

Mehdi had committed multiple traffic violations, resulting in traffic challans wrongly generated against the legitimate registered vehicle owner, Md Ibrahim, they added.

Upon detection of the fraud, police registered a case under section 318(4) (cheating) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) a...