Mysuru :
“Owners should ensure that the vehicle they have sold is registered in the name of the buyer. Just signing Forms 28 and 29 is not enough. If anything goes wrong, then the person under whose name the vehicle is registered will be held responsible,” said City Police Commissioner Dr. M.A. Saleem.
He was speaking after inaugurating the Mysore City (West) Used Car Dealers Association at a function organised at a private hotel at Yadavagiri in city on Saturday.
Citing examples, the Commissioner said that thirteen years after the death of former Minister Azeez Sait, he was issued a traffic violation notice last year. The notice was served based on the CCTV footage which showed his four wheeler violating traffic rules.
He said that Sait’s vehicle was sold without the vehicle being registered under the name of the new owner, hence the notice was issued.
Citing another example, Dr. Saleem said that a woman in Bengaluru was asked last week to pay fine for violating traffic rules in Mysuru, but the woman had lodged a complaint regarding her missing two-wheeler and added that the woman had received the notice as the vehicle was registered in her name.
Citing these examples, the Commissioner advised vehicle owners to exercise caution while selling their vehicles besides asking them to follow rules while selling their vehicle.
Dr. Saleem said that the Police were facing a lot of problem due to improper transfer of vehicles and added that in hit-and-run cases, when the cops contact the vehicle owner it leads them to the previous owner which is resulting in the actual victim’s family being not traced.
He further said that based on these incidents, the Police have decided to take a serious note of the problem and added that in future, the vehicle owner would be held responsible for any problem.
During the occasion, Association’s logo was launched and identity cards were distributed to the members of the Association.
BJP leader Yashaswini Somashekar, RTO Padma Prasad, Industrialist B.K. Gangesh, Malnad Ali Shariff, Association Vice-President Syed Riyaz, General Secretary B.S. Pradeep Kumar, Treasurer M. Satish, Organising Secretaries B. Suresh and Murugesh, Convener Ravindrakumar and others were present.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Monday, February 02nd, 2015