no riding on sidewalks. that's about it.

everywhere else is legal.

make sure you have learner plates on the front and back of the bike.

Thx dude, gotta go tour some places now

Anywhere with some restrictions . These restrictions should be mentioned on your L( Learner) licence papers or somewhere similar . Basically a learner licensee has to be accompanied by a valid license holder driver for the same vehicle type at all times he is learning on it .

Let alone a traffic cop , even I (as a private citizen) can arrest you under certain circumstances . Read about Sec. 43 CrPC . I don't read up about India's laws and and the constitution from newspapers or TV . Using this section 43 CrPC , lower ranking policemen often affect immediate arrests , that are later formalised at the police station .

The law puts the onus on you to establish your ownership of the vehicle , beyond reasonable doubt ; and not on the policeman . That is the law . In general laws are not dependent on your understanding or ignorance of it , to be invoked .

If that has been the attitude of the Mumbai Policemen , that they would not try to establish the proper ownership of a motor vehicle while checking it on the road ; that would be very sad state of security in the city indeed , and would leave no doubt who is to blame for the three scooter bomb blasts in this city yesterday that took so many lives away !

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPc) - Section 43
Any private person may arrest or cause to be arrested any person who in his presence commits a non-bailable and cognizable offence,
or any proclaimed offender, and, without unnecessary delay, shall make over or cause to be made over any person so arrested to a police officer,
or, in the absence of a police officer, take such person or cause him to be taken in custody to the nearest police station.


and if that was so easy to do... i'd just turn around... and arrest him back.

NO! u arrest me? u arrest ME? i arrest YOU !

there are so many ways to do that.

arresting someone is the last resort.

firstly... whether you like it or not...
a traffic cop CANNOT stop you n check your documents... without you committing a traffic violation.

that is the law.

if he does...
and if the bike you're riding doesn't happen to be registered on your name...
that doesn't give him the right to assume that you're a thief/terrorist.

that's just crazy.

Happens all the time here , itz a crazy country bhai ... I've been stopped and checked I dunno how many times .... sometimes thrice in three consecutive days on the same route .. specially after some terrorist attack happens anywhere .. they intensify the checks here .... or before the republic day too ... or say I'm riding out late at night after 12 ... which I have to do often . It is no use arguing with the cops ... saab , special checking chal rahi hai saab ... they'll say . I keep my helmet on & personal Identification and bike papers clear at all times and never give them opportunity for any doubt , and have never wasted more than 5-10 minutes anywhere . I have asked my RTO office (while I was there re-newing my licence) and they said that, that permission letter thing is necessary and what it should contain , and I have given one to my wifey's driver and instructed him to let them check the boot/undercarriage with mirrors etc readily without any argument , to spare him any unnecessary trouble too , and he has since had'nt any . It's my quiet way of dealing with such things ; you can choose to fight and shout it out, or go to court about it against them , with my best wishes .

+10 to that, pinaki
Dont argue, dont fight, stay cool. Do whatever he wants you to. You wont loose more then 5min.

My query..
I dont have any PUC certificate, neither my city has equipments for measuring my bike's PUC levels. What should i do if some cops asks for that? My friend have been in the same situation and she did the bribe thingy. Amounted 50 rupees only.

A puc certification costs 30rs max for 6 months..... and i cant believe that a city like jamshedpur doesnt have the equipment for checking PUC levels..... check out with a local mechanic he might know some place where it is done... normally you find these equipments in some petrol pumps and sometimes in a maruti van parked on the roadside with a big banner saying "RTO approved" or "PUC"

That's strange ... been to Jamshedpur many times ... it has roads soooo much better than calcutta (sigh!) ... and almost everyone has a bike there it seems ; and no PUC testing centre ?!!? darns !
Over here all the three HeroHonda service centres I frequent has RTO approved PUC testing and certifying equipment ; so I get it done from there . There is an advantage to it too , the Hero Honda service tunes my bike or corrects any problems until it passes the test .. for free . Check your nearest HeroHonda Service . And ohh I saw that they do any other makes of bikes too .. minus the free tinkering to pass .
As a last resort , you may have to check with the Jamshedpur RTO office and ask them whom they have authorised to issue PUC certificates in the city .

Guys, jamshedpur still has 3 RTO Approved PUC testing center for petrol engines but all of them are out of order. And They charge there customers freely, i mean my dad paid 70 rupees for getting puc clearance some 2 yrs ago!
Edit: will definately check HHASS, MASS, YASS, etc