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The Kerala State Motor Vehicle Department (KMVD) has launched a peculiar thrust to pre-empt lawbreakers, including anti-nationals and narcotic smugglers, from utilizing second-hand cars sourced from pre-owned car income agencies for transgression purposes, including terrorism.
Transport Commissioner C.H. Nagaraju told The Hindu that the enforcement thrust assumes nationalist information significance, fixed the wide and contiguous information of anti-national forces utilizing second-hand vehicles of dubious provenance arsenic tools of terror, arsenic glimpsed successful the Delhi car blast. The violent onslaught claimed astatine slightest 12 lives and injured scores of others astatine the iconic Red Fort.
He said the thrust besides focuses connected insulating unsuspecting citizens who sold their cars to used-car agencies without ensuring a timely alteration of ownership connected the KMVD’s Parivahan site, from ineligible jeopardy successful the lawsuit the conveyance is utilized for transgression purposes and progressive successful an accident.
An estimated 1,000 used-car agencies run successful Kerala. Only 580 agencies person registered with the KMVD. The others run successful the shadows. They person nary commercialized licence oregon circumstantial idiosyncratic individuality for used-car commerce”, Mr Nagaraju said.
He said specified means of evasion raised superior nationalist information questions, fixed that Kerala’s conveyance density ranks among the highest successful the country, an estimated 489 vehicles per 1,000 citizens, and that used-car transactions, including ownership changes, registration certificate cancellations, and re-registrations, are precise high, allowing lawbreakers to gaffe done the system.
“Twilight-zone” agencies
According to MVD officials, specified “twilight-zone” agencies acquisition cars from owners and deliberately bash not update the ownership records to charter the second-hand vehicles to customers astatine rates little than those charged by accepted rental services.
“No questions are asked. The agencies supply their clients with a precocious grade of anonymity and an alibi by not requiring customers to stock their driver’s licence details and insisting connected untraceable cash-only transactions”, an authoritative said. The KMVD volition audit pre-owned car income agencies and artifact the vehicles procured by unregistered agencies.
A elder State constabulary authoritative noted that specified amerciable operators inadvertently hazard nationalist security.
Cars for terror
“Delhi blasts person again spotlighted a frightening caller information scenery wherever terrorists transformed vehicles, which are the lifeblood of municipality life, into instruments of wide violence. The ubiquitousness of cars makes those ferrying termination bombers oregon equipped non-State actors hard to spot. Moreover, terrorists tin parkland explosive-laden cars successful plain show astatine high-profile locations they people to nonstop a circumstantial message”, helium added.
According to State constabulary officials, investigators person traced the provenance of vehicles confiscated for narcotic smuggling and different transgression operations, including robbery and declaration killings, to unregistered used-car agencies, which treble arsenic unregistered conveyance rental services.
By bringing Kerala’s used-car agencies nether the KMVD Parivahan online platform, the authorities hoped to insulate unsuspecting citizens from specified risks.
“The proprietor transfers the car to the agency’s commercialized licence linked to a unsocial idiosyncratic identity. There volition beryllium a wide grounds of the ownership alteration of the second-hand conveyance connected the KMV D’s Parivahan site, absolving archetypal owners of immoderate aboriginal ineligible liability. Authorities volition besides cognize the integer individuality of the idiosyncratic who purchased the car for urgent verification”, an MVD authoritative said.
