{"id":151543,"date":"2010-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/tessy-joseph-vs-regional-transport-officer-on-25-may-2010"},"modified":"2016-07-18T04:52:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T23:22:06","slug":"tessy-joseph-vs-regional-transport-officer-on-25-may-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/tessy-joseph-vs-regional-transport-officer-on-25-may-2010","title":{"rendered":"Tessy Joseph vs Regional Transport Officer on 25 May, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Tessy Joseph vs Regional Transport Officer on 25 May, 2010<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C).No. 15898 of 2010(J)\n\n\n1. TESSY JOSEPH, PUTHUSSERY HOUSE,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. REGIONAL TRANSPORT OFFICER\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. THE SECRETARY, REGIONAL TRANSPORT\n\n3. THE  TRANSPORT COMMISSIONER,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.V.G.ARUN\n\n                For Respondent  : No Appearance\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice K.SURENDRA MOHAN\n\n Dated :25\/05\/2010\n\n O R D E R\n                  K.SURENDRA MOHAN, J.\n                        ----------------------\n                 W.P.(C) No.15898 OF 2010\n                     ---------------------------\n             Dated this the 25th day of May, 2010\n\n                       J U D G M E N T\n<\/pre>\n<p>                       ~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p>     The petitioner purchased a Mahindra Bolero Camper DX 2<\/p>\n<p>WD Gold vehicle from its authorised dealer. He purchased the<\/p>\n<p>vehicle for his own personal purposes.           The vehicle was<\/p>\n<p>produced before the 1st respondent for registration. However,<\/p>\n<p>the 1st respondent refused to register the vehicle as a<\/p>\n<p>non-transport vehicle.    He also insisted on the petitioner to<\/p>\n<p>paint the vehicle with yellow colour and to be registered as a<\/p>\n<p>transport vehicle. The petitioner challenges the above action of<\/p>\n<p>the 1st respondent.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>     2.    According to the petitioner, the issue in this case is<\/p>\n<p>squarely covered by the dictum laid down by the decision<\/p>\n<p>reported in Cherian v. Transport Commissioner [2009(2)<\/p>\n<p>KLT 583]. The learned Government Pleader fairly concedes that<\/p>\n<p>the issue is covered by the above decision.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">W.P.(C) No.15898\/2010             2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>      3.    In the decision referred to above also the vehicle<\/p>\n<p>involved was a Mahindra Bolero Camper 4WD vehicle. After<\/p>\n<p>considering the relevant provisions, this Court has held that the<\/p>\n<p>vehicle need be registered only as a non-transport vehicle. It has<\/p>\n<p>been further clarified that it is upto the authorities to re-classify<\/p>\n<p>the vehicle as a transport vehicle, if it is brought to the notice of<\/p>\n<p>the authority that the vehicle is used for carriage of goods.<\/p>\n<p>      4.    In view of the above dictum, this Writ Petition can be<\/p>\n<p>disposed of directing the 1st respondent to register the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner&#8217;s vehicle as a non-transport vehicle, in terms of the<\/p>\n<p>dictum contained in the decision referred to above, subject to the<\/p>\n<p>rider that if it is found at any time that the vehicle is used for<\/p>\n<p>carriage of goods, the same can be re-classified.<\/p>\n<p>      The Writ Petition is disposed of as above. No costs.<\/p>\n<p>                               (K.SURENDRA MOHAN, JUDGE)<\/p>\n<p>ps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court Tessy Joseph vs Regional Transport Officer on 25 May, 2010 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C).No. 15898 of 2010(J) 1. TESSY JOSEPH, PUTHUSSERY HOUSE, &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. REGIONAL TRANSPORT OFFICER &#8230; Respondent 2. THE SECRETARY, REGIONAL TRANSPORT 3. THE TRANSPORT COMMISSIONER, For Petitioner :SRI.V.G.ARUN For Respondent : No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-kerala-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tessy Joseph vs Regional Transport Officer on 25 May, 2010 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/tessy-joseph-vs-regional-transport-officer-on-25-may-2010\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tessy Joseph vs Regional Transport Officer on 25 May, 2010 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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