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Kerala’s Motor Vehicles Department (MVD) successful Punalur, Kollam, has detected a suspected inter-State conveyance fraud aft a State government’s scrapped two-wheeler was attempted to beryllium re-registered, claiming it arsenic abandoned by the Indian equipped forces, officials said connected Monday (November 17, 2025).
MVD precocious posted details of the fraud connected its Facebook page.
According to officials, the incidental came to airy aft a Royal Enfield motorcycle with registration fig HP-47-A-4670 was presented astatine the Punalur Sub-Regional Transport Office for re-registration.
While inspecting the motorcycle, Assistant Motor Vehicle Inspector Simod V.S. noticed discrepancies successful its chassis number.
He past decided to verify the vehicle's chassis fig successful the Parivahan database.
“From the verification, we recovered that the motorcycle was primitively registered successful Thiruvananthapuram RTO nether the fig KL-01-AV-4409 arsenic a State authorities conveyance utilized by the Kerala Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB). It was scrapped a fewer years ago, and the conveyance registration was cancelled,” an MVD serviceman said.
According to the Kerala authorities policy, its vehicles are scrapped aft 15 years of service.
These vehicles are strictly fixed for scrapping and not permitted for further registration, the MVD authoritative said.
The MVD officials past inquired astir the vehicle's past with the idiosyncratic who produced it for re-registration.
“He said that the motorcycle was purchased from a pre-owned trader successful Malappuram district, who procured it from Haryana. The existent proprietor seems to beryllium unaware of the registration fraud,” the serviceman said.
What amazed MVD officials was that the motorcycle scrapped successful Kerala was recorded arsenic an ex-Army/auction conveyance and had been registered astatine the RTO astatine Dalhousie successful Himachal Pradesh.
“Parivahan records amusement that it was purchased from the Army connected July 22, 2025, and was re-registered fraudulently connected July 24, 2025, utilizing forged documents,” the authoritative said.
MVD suspects that the idiosyncratic who purchased the two-wheeler from the authorities section for scrapping mightiness person sold it to different State dealers.
“The trader successful different State mightiness person utilized forged documents to registry it successful Himachal Pradesh,” the serviceman said.
MVD has handed implicit the conveyance to the constabulary for conducting a elaborate probe.
The Punalur constabulary volition registry a lawsuit and behaviour an investigation, the MVD authoritative added.
