Punjab Transport Dept blacklists 5706 BS-IV vehicles registered fraudulently after April 1, 2020. Registered fraudulently for violating the Supreme Court’s guidelines, Punjab Government has blacklisted 5,706 BS-IV vehicles.
The Punjab State Government has also taken action against those vehicles, whose taxes were due and documents were incomplete and all services related to these vehicles have been blocked.
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“As per the Supreme Court’s guidelines, a complete ban is imposed on the registration of high-polluting BS-IV vehicles after March 31, 2020. But this type of vehicles had been registered fraudulently, of which the Transport Department has identified 5,706 so far,” said the state Transport Minister Laljit Singh Bhullar on Monday.
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Bhullar said that the investigation revealed that the vehicle owners, company dealers, and clerks, assistants, accountants of RTA/SDM Offices and some senior officials manipulated with engine and chassis number and vehicle manufacturing details and registration of these vehicles was done besides evading taxes.
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The Minister informed that besides this, many vehicle dealers continued their dealerships without getting themselves registered in the office of the State Transport Commissioner (STC) at that time and they have been found to be involved in fraud with the government by registering such vehicles on a large scale in their own names.
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“The Department has uploaded the list of fraudulently registered BS-IV and other vehicles on the website of the Department,” informed the Minister, adding that so far 5706 vehicles have been identified and investigation is on for identification of other vehicles.
Source : Daily Pioneer
