Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (MS)

Bengaluru, Jan 10: One car, three owners and now the state government is in a soup as it has to pay Rs two lac to the original owner of the car.

32 years ago, Transport department of the state had auctioned a luxury tax for Rs 20,000. As the original owner approached the court, the court has ordered that the car belongs to him. But the government has to pay an amount of Rs 1.9 lac to the third owner, who has the possession of the car. So the government has to shell out nine times more than the amount of the auction of the car to the third owner of the car.

According to details, RTO inspector had confiscated the car owned by Ameer in 1988 for non-payment of tax. After a year this car was auctioned. The car was bought by H R Shivashankar for Rs 20,000.

Shivashankar had sold the car bought for Rs 20,000 in auction to Kaleem Pasha for Rs 30,000. Kaleem Pasha had taken loan on the car in a private finance company. He had also spent Rs 8,900 for the repairs of the car.

Ameer, the original owner of the car had filed a case in the court questioning the auctioning of the car by the RTO. The court has quashed the auction and had directed the Hassan RTO to take the car back to its possession in 2007. However, Kaleem Pasha, third and the present owner of the car had appealed in the court that he will suffer loss due to court's order. So the court has ordered the RTO to pay Rs 38,900 and interest at a rate of 15% to Kaleem Pasha which means that the transport department has to pay an amount of Rs 1.9 lac to Kaleem Pasha as per the order passed on December 30, 2019 by the subordinate secretary of transport department.