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The Delhi High Court connected Wednesday (December 17, 2025) questioned the metropolis authorities implicit its nonaccomplishment to modulate the merchantability and transportation of utilized vehicles, portion pointing retired that successful a caller weaponry blast adjacent the Red Fort, a second-hand car was used.
A Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela asked the Delhi authorities to record a elaborate effect connected the contented of regulating authorised dealers of registered vehicles.
“A car changes 4 hands but the archetypal proprietor has not changed. Therefore, what happens? That antheral (the archetypal owner) goes to the slaughterhouse? What is this? How are you permitting this? You volition instrumentality a telephone erstwhile two-three much weaponry blasts instrumentality place?” the Bench asked the Delhi government’s counsel.
The weaponry blast adjacent the iconic Mughal-era monument was carried retired utilizing a second-hand car, making the contented adjacent much significant, the tribunal arsenic it listed the substance for further proceeding successful January 2026.
The tribunal was proceeding a nationalist involvement litigation (PIL) plea filed by an organisation, Towards Happy Earth Foundation, highlighting the challenges successful the implementation of rules 55A to 55H of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, introduced successful December 2022 to modulate authorised dealers of registered vehicles.
The petition filed done advocator Vijay Kasana said portion the rules were intended to bring accountability to the second-hand conveyance market, they person failed successful signifier owed to regulatory gaps and procedural hurdles.
“In reality, astir utilized vehicles walk done aggregate dealers earlier reaching the last buyer, but the rules recognise lone the archetypal transportation to the archetypal authorised dealer. As a result, the concatenation of custody breaks aft the archetypal step, defeating the precise intent of accountability,” the petition said.
The plea said lone a tiny fraction of India’s estimated 30,000 to 40,000 used-vehicle dealers are registered nether the authorised-dealer framework.
The petition besides pointed retired that the 11-year-old conveyance utilized successful the November 10 weaponry blast adjacent the Red Fort was sold respective times but was inactive registered successful its archetypal owner’s name.
