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Supreme Court granted big relief to thousands of consumers, allowed registration of BS-IV vehicles, which were purchased till March 31 but could not be registered due to the uncertain situation arises due to COVID-19.
Supreme Court allowed registration of BS-IV vehicles that were sold in March but couldn’t complete the process due to the COVID-19 induced nationwide lockdown.
The ruling applies to vehicles whose details were uploaded on the government’s Vahan portal.
The apex court had, two weeks ago, disallowed registration of BS-IV vehicles. The court was irked over the violation of its order and pulled up automobile dealers association for sale of BS-IV vehicles when the lockdown was announced in the last week of March and extended three times.
The court had on July 8 recalled the March 27 order by which it had allowed sale of BS-IV vehicles for 10 days across India, except in Delhi-NCR, after lifting of the Covid-19 lockdown.
The relief, which was later withdrawn, to permit sale of the BS-IV vehicles for a small window period after lifting of the lockdown was granted to the dealers by the apex court keeping in mind the fact that the country had decided to not to allow their sale after March 2020.