A 40-year-old doctor in Hyderabad was arrested for drunk-driving in his BMW, which had a mechanism to change its number plates by pressing a button.
The Jubilee Hills police caught Goutham Reddy, a resident of Gandhi Nagar area, during a routine drunk-drive check at Chiranjeevi Blood Bank.
His blood alcohol content (BAC) was recorded at 137 mg/dl, exceeding the permissible limit of 30 mg/dl.
The police found that Reddy had installed a mechanism in his car to switch the number plates automatically, allowing him to evade traffic fines.
Reddy claimed that he had got it installed 'just for fun', but the police suspected that he was using this technology to evade traffic fines.
The police seized the vehicle and launched an investigation, which revealed that the car is originally registered in Delhi, while the number plate with Telangana registration belonged to another car of his own family.
