Buyer did not transfer car to his name & fitness, tax lapsed
S MUKHERJEE
(Querist) 18 November 2015
This query is : Resolved
I gave away my old car in exchange-sale to a car showroom in 2011. They sold it to someone who applied for transfer of ownership and renewal of fitness. Though I tendered my sale verification at RTO, I later came to understand much later that the buyer had aborted the process thereby retaining the car with its fitness lapsed but still registered under my name. By 2012, the tax also defaulted. I also came to know that in 2014 he might have disposed the car as scrap. Meanwhile the unpaid taxes and fines are accumulating in my name. I neither have the car with me nor its registration certificate (RC). He is also not giving me back the RC for surrendering to RTO for cancellation of registration. I need your expert advice as to how to cancel registration of this car and get the tax dues clear under such situation.
