SINGAPORE: To evade Electronic Road Pricing ( ERP ) charges, a woman modified one of her motorcycle’s licence plates.
With the opportunities of two figures on the vehicle’s back licence plate switched, she committed 68 Sap- related crimes and five illegal driving offences between October 2019 and February 2020, based on Land Transport Authority ( LTA ) information.
The girl, 28- year- ancient Indonesian Deivanai Karunanithi, was sentenced to three weeks in jail on May 10, according to a court report obtained by CNA on Thursday ( May 23 ).
This is the first instance in which the LTA has fined a person for driving a foreign-registered car while using a bogus license plate to stop immoral activity from being discovered.
On February 21, 2020, an , LTA official discovered different numbers on Deivanai’s motorcycle’s front and rear license plates while it was parked by a light post along Bayfront Avenue, according to LTA attorney Darren Toh in the report.
Its top plate displayed the quantity “JTH1825” while its back plate carried the quantity “JTH8125”.
No report of a car with that number was found in the LTA’s program when the agent checked the number on the back of the motorcycle.
The agent then determined that the car had been used to register it in LTA’s system using the range that was displayed on the front of the vehicle.
The bike was towed and impounded for investigations, according to Mr. Toh, given that the motorcycle displayed uneven identifying marks.
Studies revealed that Deivanai, who was a labor force holder and a security officer at the time, owned the bike.
Mr. Toh claimed that she would use the motorcycle’s right number, JTH1825, on both its top and back to make the walk from Malaysia to Singapore.
However, after entering Singapore and reaching the Bukit Timah Expressway, she would swap the” 1″ and the” 8″ on the rear plate of the motorcycle so that it would read “JTH8125” instead.
Deivani did this on 14 times between October 2019 and November 2019, Mr Toh said. She admitted to avoiding ERP costs by doing this.
She was found guilty of 14 counts of violating Singapore’s road traffic laws by failing to place the identifying mark on a car at the back of the car.