India, Feb. 4 -- Four delivery riders have been booked and fined for allegedly tampering with their e-bikes to increase their speed beyond the permissible limit of 25 kph. The four accused, who the police did not identify, were caught by the traffic police on December 13 for allegedly speeding and riding rashly on the Western Express Highway near Samata Nagar in Kandivali.

According to the traffic police, the accused either tampered with the speed lock on the e-bikes provided by their employers or changed the electric motor of the vehicles to make them go faster. E-bikes are supposed to have a maximum speed of 25 kph, but traffic police officers intercepted the accused in December after noticing they were riding at a speed that seemed to...