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Invalid RC book and insurance papers cause problems and L. Srikrishna writes about how they do. In recent weeks, the traffic and crime police have discovered that during intense vehicle checks, RC books and insurance papers were either invalid or the owners had not effected a transfer of the vehicle to their names. Senior officers investigating traffic and crime-related offences said people who purchased used vehicles have not transferred the vehicle in their names. As a result, the ex-owners find themselves in trouble. For traffic violations such as jumping signals, lane-jumping, over-speeding, the police send notices to the addresses of the vehicle owners as in the records, directing them to pay fines. On receipt of the notice, the owners rush to the police to inform that they had sold their vehicles long ago. However, the police officers said that the persons figuring in the RTO registers would be legally liable to pay the fines/compensation/imprisonment, depending on the nature of offence. A case in point is that of a software professional in Adyar who sold his car nine months ago through a car broker. Last week, he received a police notice directing him to pay a fine for signal jumping violation. Shocked, the IT professional went to the police station to inform that he had sold the vehicle long ago, but he was informed that since the name change was not effected, he had received the notice . In another case, 10 days ago when a 30-year-old-man was proceeding towards Madambakkam on his two-wheeler at around 11 p.m., he was hit from behind by a speeding water tanker. It was a case of hit-and-run and the motorist died in a nearby private hospital. Members of the police noticed the registration number of the tanker lorry and informed the police. Investigations revealed that the vehicle owner, as per the records, resided at Vellore. A team rushed there, but found that the person had already sold the vehicle four years ago through a car broker in Chennai. The police are in the process of tracing the lorry and are yet to file an FIR in this connection. It is another story that the legal heirs of the victim are not sure as to how to get compensation from the insurance company. Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Sunil Kumar said that while selling/buying vehicles in second hand markets, public should ensure that the name transfer procedures were carried out as per the law.
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