Padmanabha Prasanna, founder-president of the Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP), was interrogated by the police here for a few hours on Thursday for travelling in a four-wheeler that had an irregular number plate.
Mr. Prasanna, whose party has fielded a candidate for the byelection to the Shikaripur Assembly segment, had come to Shimoga from Bangalore in a hired four-wheeler with regard to byelection-related work.
Vehicle stoppedThe police stopped the vehicle near Savalanga. The four-wheeler had a white number plate with black characters (meant for private vehicles).
The police, however, found two yellow number plates with black characters (meant for taxis) in the vehicle.
The police interrogated Mr. Prasanna in this regard. Mr. Prasanna told the police that he was not the owner of the vehicle and that he had hired it from one Raghunath from Bangalore.
The police said that though the vehicle in which Mr. Prasanna was travelling was a taxi, the owner had put up a white number plate with black characters to evade tax.
After examining the vehicle documents, the police found that the owner had not paid road tax from the past three years.
The Jayanagar police have booked case under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code against Raghunath.
