new delhi roadside car accessories shops have started taking advantage of the slow process of getting highsecurity numberplates installed at government authorised centres they have been providing replicas within 15 minutes of getting the order which can easily pass off as a legitimate one to the naked eyethe shop owners who earlier used to install customised numberplates for as low as rs 200 claimed that they just have to enter the font and style of the highsecurity numberplates in their systems to create the replicasa visit by toi to various car accessories shops in delhincr found that business was going on briskly without any hindrance a shop owner in southwest delhis dabri agreed to install a replica for as low as rs 300 but the price was a tad higher at rs 500 in west delhis tilak nagarwhile the government authorised numberplates have an array of security features including chromiumbased hotstamped hologram retroreflective film and a tamperproof snap lock system the same are missing in the replicas provided by private dealers an ordinary hologram sticker with the chakra image is crafted digitally on the replicathe men working at the shops said that the font and images are readily available for download on the internet they print the items with the help of vinyl plotter machines graphics software are then used to create a soft copy of the registration number and the printing press makes the mould of the digits and letters in the exact fonts used in the authorised numberplates the dealers install the plates within 15 minutes of getting an orderhowever police said that the business is an offence and people involved in providing the counterfeits are liable to be booked under ipc sections of cheating forgery and passing a fake as a genuine product recently two men were arrested from west delhis janakpuri with 127 fake highsecurity numberplates along with the devices used in their preparationsenior traffic police officers said that if a person is found using a fake numberplate on his vehicle he can be charged under motor vehicles act and the vehicles registration can also be cancelled