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Two vehicles with the same registration number seized

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Both were being operated as `contract carriage'

DUBIOUS OPERATION: The seized buses sporting the same registration number at the State Transport Corporation depot on Pallavan Salai on Thursday. — Photo: S.R. Raghunathan

CHENNAI: The Enforcement wing of the Transport Department seized two buses bearing the same registration number from two different places in the city on Thursday.

K. Mohanram, Regional Transport Officer (Enforcement), said Transport Minister K.N. Nehru had received a complaint about operation of two buses bearing the same registration number (TN 07N 9240). Following his instructions, the buses were seized by two special teams, which monitored their movement from early morning on Thursday.

Both the vehicles were being operated as `contract carriage' and used for transporting employees of two different export garment units functioning in the Ambattur Industrial Estate and Villivakkam. While one bus transported employees from Ambattur Old Town to Ambattur Industrial Estate, the other vehicle picked up employees from Choolai and was on its way to Villivakkam, where the garment unit was functioning.

Mr. Mohanram said any vehicle operated as a contract carriage needed to pay Rs. 3,000 per seat per quarter. The seating capacity of one bus was 57 and that of the other was 51. So the operator or the owner of the 57-seater vehicle should have paid Rs. 1.71 lakh per quarter as tax alone. The bus with 51 seating capacity needed to have paid Rs. 1.53 lakh per quarter. Apart from this the owner of the vehicles now had to pay penalty, which would be calculated depending upon the number of years it was operated as a contract carriage, Mr. Mohanram said.

Asked about the owner of the vehicles, Mr. Mohanram said whether it was owned by the same person, for how long the vehicles were in operation and of the two, which vehicle was bearing the original registration number could be known only after a thorough investigation.

After completing the investigation, the penalty would be imposed on the violator, Mr. Mohanram said.

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