THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No. 22742 of 2010 O R D E R: This Writ Petition has been filed for declaring the action of the 2nd respondent, Assistant Motor Vehicles Inspector, Regional Transport Authority, Karimnagar, in seizing the tractor and trailor bearing Registered Nos. AP 01D 6293 and AP15T 7045, belonging to the writ petitioners, under Vehicle Check Report No. 0343069, dated 16.06.2010 as illegal. The 2nd respondent Assistant Motor Vehicles Inspector appears to have stopped the vehicle in question on 16.06.2010 at 12.35 in the afternoon and when the check revealed that the driver of the tractor did not possess the driving licence and he also did not produce the necessary documents, such as the registration certificate, insurance policy, etcetera, he seized the vehicle. It was further noticed that no proof of payment of tax for the quarter ending on 30.06.2010 has also been produced. Learned counsel for the writ petitioners, Sri A. Prabhakar Rao, submits that the owner of the vehicle as well as the driver of the vehicle do possess all the requisite certificates. Only on the ground that they were not produced at the time of check, the vehicle has been seized in spite of pleading for little more time to produce the same. Per contra, the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Transport would submit that the writ petitioners are bound to produce all the necessary documents in original at the time of check and their failure to do so, attracts the penal action contemplated by the A.P. Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. Be that as it may, this matter has got to be enquired into and during the course of enquiry, the petitioners are bound to produce all the original documents for the purpose of inspection and scrutiny by the authority. Since there is a specific allegation that the writ petitioners have not produced proof of payment of tax for the quarter ending on 30.06.2010, I consider it appropriate to direct the release of the vehicle namely tractor with its trailor bearing Registered No. AP01D 6293 and AP15T 7045, on payment of Rs.10,000/- by the writ petitioners and also executing an undertaking that they will produce the vehicle for inspection as and when required by the authorities. However, the enquiry may go on. With this, the Writ Petition stands disposed of. No costs. ---------------------------------- (NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J) 13th September 2010 Note: Issue CC tomorrow. ksld