[2026:RJ-JD:7475]

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JODHPUR S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 9267/2025 Pawan D/o Shri Amra Ram, Aged About 35 Years, Resident Of Near Gulab Circle, Mandpura, Tehsil Pachpadra, District Balotra.

----Petitioner Versus

1. State Of Rajasthan, Through Its Secretary Department Of Transport And Road Safety, Govt. Rajasthan, Jaipur.

2. The Commissioner, Department Of Transport And Road Safety, Rajasthan, Jaipur.

3. The Regional Transport Officer, Jodhpur.

4. The District Transport Officer, Balotra.

----Respondents S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 21005/2025 Sata Ram S/o Shri Thana Ram, Aged About 26 Years, Resident Of Village Sara Jhund, Tehsil Gudamalani, District Barmer.

----Petitioner Versus

1. State Of Rajasthan, Through Its Secretary Department Of Transport And Road Safety, Govt. Rajasthan, Jaipur.

2. The Commissioner, Department Of Transport And Road Safety, Rajasthan, Jaipur.

3. The District Transport Officer, Barmer.

----Respondents For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Hapu Ram For Respondent(s) : Mr. Sulochna Bishnoi on behalf of Mr. B.L. Bhati, AAG HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KULDEEP MATHUR

Order

10/02/2026

1. All these petitions involve a common question/dispute and therefore, all are being decided by this common order.

2. All the petitioners are the bonafide purchasers of the vehicles from their original registered owners or subsequent purchasers and now, the registration of vehicles is in their name by the registering authority.

3. The respondent-transport department has issued separate notices to the petitioners that the vehicles in question now registered in the name of the petitioners alleged to have been not manufactured by the registered manufacturing company and the engine no. and chasis no. of their vehicle are not be genuine one. In the notice, the respondents have also stated that the petitioners have to give explanation and if the explanation is not found to be satisfactory, the respondent-registration of the vehicle can be cancelled invoking the powers given under Section 55 (5)

of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.

4. After a length of arguments, counsel appearing for the respondents, so as to resolve the issue, on instructions from the department, fairly states that the petitioners may submit a detailed representation giving out their credentials as regards the purchase and registration of their vehicles by the registering authority and after receiving their representation, the department taking into consideration the facts stated in the representation submitted by the petitioners and the record available with them and after making a due verification from the earlier registering authorities, shall conduct an inquiry and on the basis of the conclusion of that inquiry, if something substantial is found to take action against the petitioners, they will issue an appropriate show cause notice and thereafter, proceed in accordance with the law.

5. Counsels for the petitioners also with fairness and to put an end to the issue accepted the proposal of the counsel for the respondent and state that all the petitioners will submit their representations to the respondent-transport department within a period of four weeks from today.

6. In view of the proposal made by the respondent-department and so also the submissions made by the counsel for the petitioners, the Court deems just and proper to dispose the writ petitions as under:-

i. The petitioners shall submit their representation within a period of four weeks from today to the respective registration authority giving out the complete details as regards their purchase and registration of their vehicle. If no such representation is filed within given time, this order will render ineffective qua such petitioner and the impugned notice will got revived automatically.

ii. On receiving the representation from the petitioners, the respondent authorities shall after taking into consideration the averments made in the representation, the record available with them in respect of the vehicle