The city traffic police held a meeting with 70 scrap dealers on Friday to discuss the recent car blast in front of a temple in Kottaimedu. The state government has instructed the scrap dealers to get a licence from the motor vehicle maintenance department, MVMD, for scrapping old vehicles. Deputy Commissioner of Police Traffic, Mathivanan, urged the dealers to obtain licences from the MVMD under the Tamil Nadu Scrap Merchants and Dealers in Second Hand Property and Owners of Automobile Workshops and Tinker Shops Regulation and Control Licensing Amendment Act, 2008. He said dealers should follow the same while selling parts of scrapped vehicles, and the police will verify registers maintained by the dealers regularly. Those who are not maintaining records will face legal action.
