India, Sept. 15 -- LUCKNOW The UP transport department has directed all private owners of vehicles auctioned or transferred from government departments to immediately replace their existing 'G/.G' registration series (reserved for government vehicles) with a private registration number.

Owners have been given 60 days to comply, failing which their registration certificates (RC) may be suspended and other penal action initiated under the Motor Vehicles Act. The fresh moves comes after it was found that in Rampur over 9,000 private vehicles were allotted registration number series reserved for government vehicles.

Currently, people who get government vehicles through auction continue to use the same registration numbers that were meant fo...