A Delhi tribunal questioned how a commercial vehicle could be sold repeatedly without corresponding changes in the RC.
A road accident involving a commercial ‘Gramin Sewa’ vehicle in Delhi has exposed glaring loopholes in India’s vehicle ownership transfer system after the vehicle changed hands multiple times without the Registration Certificate (RC) being updated.
The issue came into focus after a Delhi Motor Accident Claims Tribunal flagged the case in an order dated May 12 while deciding a compensation claim arising from a 2022 accident involving the uninsured vehicle.
In the order, Judge Dr. Abhilash Malhotra questioned how a ‘Gramin Sewa’ vehicle, whose permit is issued only after due diligence in the name of the registered owner, could change hands multiple times without the RC records being updated.
The tribunal noted that the vehicle was first sold by the registered owner to another person, who subsequently sold it again before it eventually came into the possession of a third owner. Despite the successive transactions, the RC records were never updated.
