Controversies and Harbhajan Singh seem to travel together. The off-spinner was on Tuesday challaned by the Chandigarh Traffic Police for plying his recently-imported Hummer vehicle without a registration number.
The city's senior Superintendent of Police (traffic), H S Doon said Harbhajan's vehicle was found moving without a number plate on Monday.
"We have issued a challan of Rs 3,000 for the violation," he added.
Harbhajan, who is in Chandigarh to participate in BCCI's Sahara Corporate Cup, on Monday boarded an Innova vehicle on way to his hotel from the airport.
But, along the way, he changed over and sat in his recently-purchased Hummer, which was being driven by another person.
The vehicle, without any registration number, had escaped a challan from the Punjab police when it was driven about 150 kms from his Jalandhar home to Chandigarh by a friend of the cricketer.
As per the Motor Vehicles Act, no vehicle can be brought on the road without a registration number.
"Be it an international cricketer or a common man, the law is same for everyone. If Harbhajan or anybody else is moving without a registration number, action will be taken as per law," Doon said.
The temporary number issued at the time of purchase is valid for 30 days, traffic police officials said adding even the temporary registration number has to be displayed properly on the number plates in the front and the rear.
Meanwhile, this is not the first time that Harbhajan has landed in controversy in and around Chandigarh.
In the first edition of the IPL, he found himself involved in a slapgate incident with pacer S Sreesanth at the PCA stadium at Mohali.
