Notice to police chief over ban on tinted car glasses

Cars with tinted glasses were involved in more heinous cases in general too. Quoting the rule, the petition says that the glass of the wind screen and the rear window of every motor vehicle shall be such that visual transmission of light is not less than 70 per cent. And visual transmission of light should not be less than 50 per cent in the side windows.

“There have been several cases in which women have been abducted, molested and raped in such vehicles and other crimes like abduction, kidnapping and assault have also been committed,” the petition adds. The commission of such crimes goes unnoticed as nobody even moving close to such vehicles can notice the crime behind the dark glasses, it adds.

Bagai has contended that despite the existence of clear provision of law in this regard, it was being observed more in breach than in compliance. He sought the High Court’s intervention to direct the law enforcing authorities to strictly enforce the law. The case will come up for hearing again on May 19.