Honble MATHUR, J.–By these two writ petitions, constitutional validity of following portion of Section 207(1) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, hereinafter referred-to as the ``Act of 1988, has been challenged:

``207. Power to detain vehicles used without certificate of registration permit, etc.-(1) ``Any police officer or and words ....seize and detain the vehicle, in the prescribed manner and for this purpose take or cause to be taken any steps he may consider proper for the temporary safe custody of the vehicle:

Provided that where any such officer or person has reason to believe that a motor vehicle has been or is being used in contravention of

Section 3 or Section 4 or without the permit required by sub-Section (1) of Section 66, he may, instead of seizing the vehicle....

(2). In short, Section 207 of the Act of 1988 empowers a police officer or an officer authorised by the State Government to seize a motor vehicle, if he has a reason to believe that the vehicle is being driven without registration or without permit or by a person who has no driving licence or plying on unauthorised route and the vehicle may be released only after satisfying that the vehicle complies-with a require

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