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By Pearly Tan
He was given a ticket from the Land Transport Authority (LTA) for supposedly having an illegal yellow licence plate and tinted car windows that were too dark.
But the 24-year-old businessman, who wanted to be known only as Mr Anson, said his one-year-old Volkswagen Scirocco has not been modified and his licence plate has always been black.
"The car was purchased directly from Volkswagen Centre Singapore. No modifications were done so the window tint should not be darker than allowed and my car licence plate has never been yellow," he claimed.
What puzzled him even more was that his father, who bought the car, had never been contacted by LTA to check on the tint of the car windows.
An LTA spokesman told The New Paper that it may conduct checks on illegal modifications on vehicles following complaints from the public.
These include asking the car owner to send the vehicle to an LTA-approved inspection centre for a tint test.
Mr Anson told TNP that the summons was issued to him last November.
He had not been contacted by LTA before that, he said. Mr Anson, who owns an IT business in Bukit Batok, added that he was the only one driving the sedan.
He said: "The summons letter fined my father, who is the car owner, a total of $140. The time of offence was at 8.50am and the location was at the basement carpark of my condominium."
Mr Anson lives in Centris condominium at Jurong West Central.
He said: "I called the LTA hotline on the same day I received the summons. I wanted to know what the summons was about. I also knew that I needed an LTA officer to inspect my car soon so there would be no room to say that I had already removed the modifications."
The summons arrived three days after his car licence plate number was a winning 4-D number, so Mr Anson suspected that someone wanted to get him into trouble out of jealousy.
He said an LTA officer conducted a tint meter inspection on his car after he called the LTA hotline.
He added that the results from the inspection fell within the acceptable range.
Mr Anson also said that the LTA officer told him he had earlier inspected his car following a complaint.
 
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