MTD Commissioner General, Nishantha Anuruddha Weerasingha said the owners should register their vehicles within 14 days after buying a vehicle under their names failing which they had to pay a fine of Rs100 for every day they keep the vehicle without transferring it under their names.

When a traffic offence was committed, the police had difficulty tracing the offender, because the papers had not been transferred to the present owner’s name.

It has been revealed that a large number of motorcycle and three-wheeler owners along with motorists have not been transferred it to their names for several years and the fines accumulated into lakhs of rupees