SAFETY MEASURES: The city police will soon penalise those driving cars with tinted glasses. — K. Gajendran

HYDERABAD: Planning to decorate windscreens and windows of your car with dark, black, reflective and tinted films, then you could be very soon penalised for violating a law under the Central Motor Vehicles Rules.

The City Traffic Police are planning to enforce the law, which states that the visual transmission of light of window screen and rear window should be 70 per cent and that of side windows should be 50 per cent.

According to City Traffic Police Additional Commissioner A.K.Khan, the law was incorporated in the Motor Vehicles Rules throughout the country way back in 1989. However, after commuters complained of loss of privacy and inconvenience due to heat in the vehicles, it was not enforced strictly and already, Delhi and Mumbai Traffic Police were enforcing the law and found it to be beneficial in curbing crime to an extent.

Safety for commuters

The main objective of the law is to ensure safety to commuters, besides helping the police in many ways, especially in kidnap cases.

"Even an ordinary citizen can locate a person if he/she screams in a car or tries to escape from the tangle of criminals. Besides this, it can also help us in terms of the seat belts. It would be easy for us to locate whether a driver has tightened his seat belt or not. All this, if the visual transmission is clear," says Mr.Khan.

Awareness camps

Before enforcing the law, the Additional Traffic Commissioner said awareness camps and advertisements would be carried to let the people learn the importance of using transparent glasses and maximum time would be given to the people to comply with the law.

"A fine of Rs.100 would be levied for violating the law. We are planning to enforce the law strictly and it would come into effect shortly," said Mr.Khan.

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