Daijiword Media Network—Mangalore (PS)
Mangalore, May 15: Traffic cops across the city started removing sun films free of cost from vehicle windows on Tuesday May 15. In areas like Commissioner’s Office, Balmatta, the sun films of a few cars were removed in the evening.
The move followed the Supreme Court judgment dated April 27, 2012, which prohibited any modification to the windscreens and windows of vehicles by adding any laminated film and held it illegal as per the provisions of the Indian Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and Central Motor Vehicles Rules Act, 1989.
Sources at the traffic police station said that after the police commissioner intimated the staff to proceed with the enforcement of the rule and sun films were peeled off for free by the cops.
Earlier Prathap Reddy, IGP, Western Range, had released a press note mentioning the enforcement of the rule in the city.
The Central Motor Vehicle Rules Act says the glasses of windscreens and rear windows of vehicles should have a visual light transmission of 70 per cent. For side windows, it should be at least 50 per cent.
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