JUDGMENT

Gita Mittal, Acting Chief Justice The petitioner, a society which claims to be working in the domain of transport, by way of the instant writ petition, made a grievance that the vehicles of the Rashtrapati Bhawan; office of the Vice-President; the Raj Niwas and the Protocol Division of the Ministry of External Affairs do not display registration marks on their vehicles. Instead the registration mark stands replaced by the State Emblem of India.

2. The petitioner has contended that registration mark on vehicles is mandatory under Section 41(6) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 which relates to the manner in which registration of vehicles is to be effected. Section 41(6) of the Act reads as follows:

"41. Registration, how to be made.-

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(6) The registering authority shall assign to the vehicle, for display thereon, a distinguishing mark (in this Act referred to as the registration mark) consisting of one of the groups of such of those letters and followed by such letters and figures as are allotted to the State by the Central Government from time to time by notification in the Official Gazette, and displayed and shown on the motor vehicle in such form and in such m