Hyderabad, April 14 -- A case has been registered against a person in Borabanda after he was found using a fake number plate to avoid traffic challans, police said on Tuesday, April 14.

The case came to light after Hyderabad Traffic Police detected misuse of an identical registration number on two Honda Activa vehicles and filed a complaint with Borabanda police.

During the investigation, it was found that the registration number (TS09GD2712), originally allotted to a vehicle registered in the name of Deepa Rani, had been misused by the accused D Narayana Reddy.

The act was committed with an intention to mislead enforcement authorities and evade legal penalties, the police said.

A case has been registered under sections 318(4) (cheati...