The Ernakulam Further Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace Court docket imposed a high-quality of ₹38,000 every on the motive force and proprietor of a tipper lorry on cost of carrying an overload of 9 tonnes within the lorry.

The incident pertains to December 2021 when Vinod Kumar N., a Motor Automobile inspector on the Enforcement RTO Workplace, inspected the tipper lorry at Kolenchery and found that the 25-tonne-capacity lorry was carrying a load of 34 tonnes. The driving force and proprietor refused to pay a high-quality of ₹23,500 that the Motor Autos division imposed on them, following which a case was filed within the courtroom.

The courtroom imposed the high-quality on the duo after listening to 5 witnesses. They included officers of the MVD and the Authorized Metrology division.