Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 40 · Decided 9 January 2019
Regional Transport Officer & ORS. ETC. v. K. Jayachandra & ANR. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 40 · [2019] 1 S.C.R. 179
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 219/2019
- Decided
- 9 January 2019
- Bench
- ARUN MISHRA, VINEET SARAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 52, 52(1)
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: s. 52 (as amended by Act 27/2000) - Alteration in motor vehicle - Permissible limit - Held: The very object of amendment of s. 52(1) is to prohibit alteration of a vehicle - Explanation to s. 52 says that "alteration" means a change in in a change in its basic feature - Thus, the alterations which do not change the basic features are outside the purview of alteration - Though the vehicle has to comply with the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Rules, the Rules have to be read as subservient to the provisions of
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