JUDGMENT

R Raghunandan Rao, J. - In all these writ petitions, the issues raised by the petitioners are similar and can be disposed of by a common order.

2. Brief facts, in all these writ petitions, are as follows:

In the course of certain enquiries, it had come to the light that commercial vehicles having BS-III emission standards, registered in other states, which had initially been declared as scrap, were again registered in the State of Andhra Pradesh, by production of fabricated documents showing as if these vehicles have BS-IV emission standards. After obtaining such registration certificates, it appears that the persons, who had obtained such registration certificates, by utilizing fabricated documents, had sold the said vehicles to innocent purchasers. It appears that 154 such vehicles had been sold to various purchasers in and around the State of Andhra Pradesh. The petitioners, in all these cases, are such purchasers of commercial vehicles including heavy goods carriage vehicles. The vehicles purchased by the petitioners were seized at different places, at different poi