Car number plates - anyone watching?

As a daily commuter, between Delhi and Gurgaon, I have always been fed up with the deteriorating traffic condition. Ever increasing number of vehicles, regular jams, fancy number plates, creative musical horns and erratic driving sense of Delhi drivers have always blown my top off.

For long I had been thinking of starting a blog on traffic violations in DELHI NCR territory. Finally, I had an incident yesterday which didn't let me hold back anymore and here I am recounting my experience.

On my way to home from Gurgaon to Dwarka, as usual, I got stuck in a jam around IFFCO  CHAWK. The three lane road suddenly became a 6-lane one. I really admire how Delhiite can drive their car maintaining distance between two lanes with such precision. Biker's have become adapt at filling up available spaces created between lanes.

It is then that I committed an unpardonable sin a driver could ever commit on NCR's road. In NCR you are suppose to drive with your car's front bumper almost touching the rear bumper of the car in front. The keyword here is "almost touching". If you touch it then changes in your physical appearance would depend on the mood and linage of the occupants of car in front, irrespective of who was at fault for bridging the distance between "almost touching" and "touched".

I gave some breathing space between my car and the car in front. Suddenly a green WagonR LXi, having pitch dark tint on glasses, from left lane, swerved to right and before i could realise what was happening, it had occupied the space I created. I was angry with the driver for pulling off this stunt without giving me any chance to deny him an opportunity. I wanted to step out, give him a piece of my mind and come back feeling vindicated. I almost did it when this offending car's rear number plate caught my eyes! I thought if a biker see it then they would feel embarrassed for putting up such big number plates!

The car was barely 2-meters in front of me but I wasn't able to read its registration number properly. I thought perhaps my eye sight have gone weaker due to excessive movie watching and spending hours working on my laptop. To verify my doubt, I looked at a bill-board which was on a telecom tower in a distance. I was able to read it properly. Satisfied, I looked at the number plate again and surprisingly I still could not read it. I took off my glasses, you have luxury of doing it if you stuck at IFFCO, wiped them clean and tried checking the number again, and still there was no luck. In the end, I took out my mobile, at 7:35 PM, zoomed it 2X and took a picture of the car in front. So now I know the registration number was DL 2C AC 8414.

I think if the purpose of putting such a number plate was to avoid anyone from noting down the vehicle's number in case it violates any traffic law or meets with any untoward incident, then the plate served its purpose.

I sincerely hope authorities would crack down on such offenders severely and ensure this menace is checked before it goes out of control.