
Motor Vehicles authority can blacklist vehicle on portal: HC
The Hindu
‘Ample powers to include details of offences on Parivahan portal’
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court has held that the State Motor Vehicles authority is entitled to blacklist a vehicle or incorporate the details of any crime in which a vehicle is involved on the Parivahan portal.
The Bench led by Chief Justice S. Manikumar observed that the Motor Vehicles authority is vested with ample powers to incorporate the details of the offences in relation to a vehicle on the Parivahan portal as per the clear provision of law.
The court made the ruling recently while dismissing an appeal filed by a vehicle owner against the inclusion of the crime registered against him following a dispute over the payment of the price of the vehicle.

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