An off-duty cop spotted the SUV with blacked-out windows and a fancy number plate and filed a complaint, but the financier failed to appear when summoned by the police
The photo taken by the DCP clearly shows how heavily tinted the windows were in comparison to the surrounding cars
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A cop is always a cop, even if he is not on duty. It was for a relaxing walk that a Mumbai Police DCP had headed out to Worli Sea Face, but the first hint of shady business was enough to push him into action, booking one of Mumbai’s big-time financiers for using tinted glass and a fancy number plate on his SUV —both are violations of traffic laws.
The incident took place on the night of September 27, and once the senior cop reported the matter to the Worli police station, the car turned out to be registered to Kapil Wadhwan, chairman and managing director of DHFL, one of the country’s leading private housing finance companies.
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“At around 10 pm, the DCP, who was in plain clothes, spotted a black Range Rover with a Pondicherry registration number PY01-CK-0007 on the north-bound stretch at Bindu Mahadeo Chowk on Worli Sea Face Road. The windows were so highly tinted, that there was almost zero transparency. The DCP immediately clicked a picture of the car,” said an officer from the Worli police station.
Refusal to cooperate
On spotting the DCP clicking the photo, a passenger got out of the car and approached him. Wearing khaki pants and a white shirt, the man claimed to be a constable from the Protection Branch and asked the DCP to delete the picture right away.
“Unaware of the DCP’s background, the man asked him to delete the picture. While refusing to do so, the DCP asked him to identify himself and the owner of the car. The person claimed to be a constable from the protection branch and said, ‘Dewan Sahab ki gaadi hai’. When the DCP revealed his identity to him, the constable ran to the car and sped away,” said a police officer.
Following this, the DCP called up the officer on night duty in the area — Assistant Police Inspector B Sutar — and lodged a Local Area Crime (LAC) against the owner of the vehicle under Sections 100 and 236 of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules (CMVR), along with Sections 177 and 177 of the Motor Vehicle (MV) Act. The police obtained the registration details of the Range Rover and the owner turned out to be Khar resident and DHFL chief, Kapil Wadhwan. mid-day attempted to contact him, but he remained unavailable for comment.
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Cop speak
“According to the law, we asked the owner to come to the police station so he could pay the penalty in person at the police station, but he sent a representative instead. So, we sent the case papers to court for further action. Now he will have to pay the fine in court,” said Vinay Kulkarni, senior inspector of the Worli police station.
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