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Ramkrishan UpadhyayTribune News ServiceChandigarh, September 11Owners of diesel vehicles are in a fix as a majority of the pollution centres are allegedly refusing to examine diesel vehicles for checking pollution levels citing various reasons. While some do not have extra machines for checking the pollution level of diesel vehicles, some others are checking only petrol vehicles. The shortage of facilities to check pollution of diesel vehicles is causing harassment to the owners. Sumit, another diesel vehicle owner, said the authorities should direct all pollution centres to start checking diesel vehicles. Of the 45,285 vehicles checked during this period for pollution, the number of petrol vehicles was 39,409..