IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN WEDNESDAY, THE 5TH AUGUST 2009 / 14TH SRAVANA 1931 WP(C).No. 22068 of 2009(C) ------------------------------------ PETITIONER(S): ----------------------- MAJEEDKHAN.A.P, S/O.MR.ALISON MUHAMMED, CHAIRMAN, N.I.COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (NOORUL ISLAM UNIVERSITY), KUMARACOIL,THUCKALAY P.O., KANYAKUMARI DISTRICT, TAMIL NADU STATE. BY ADV. MR.JOBI JOSE KONDODY RESPONDENT(S): ------------------------ 1. THE REGIONAL TRANSPORT OFFICER, REGIONAL TRANSPORT OFFICE,THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. THE ASSISTANT MOTOR VEHICLES INSPECTOR, REGIONAL TRANSPORT OFFICE,THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. R1 & R2 BY GOVT. PLEADER MR.P.NARAYANAN THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 05/08/2009, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: tss THOTTATHIL B. RADHAKRISHNAN, J. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = W.P.(C).No.22068 of 2009-C = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Dated this the 5th day of August, 2009. JUDGMENT 1.The learned Government Pleader appears for the respondents. 2.The petitioner was the Chairman of Noorul Islam College of Engineering. Vehicles for the purpose of that College were registered in the name of the Chairman of that College. With the passage of time, it is stated that the College has been granted a Deemed University status in terms of Ext.P1. Accordingly, the petitioner says that the vehicles are really owned by the University, as of now. May be that is so. 3.On the ground that the registered owner is shown as Majeedkhan A.P., the Motor Vehicle authorities in Kerala are not permitting the vehicles of the WP(C)22068/09 -: 2 :- petitioner's establishment to ply with the board showing that it is a vehicle of Noorul Islam University. It appears that proceedings have been taken either under the Motor Vehicles Act or under other penal laws and the vehicles' movement gets obstructed by the officials. 4.Transfer of ownership and transfer of the registered owner of the vehicle under the Motor Vehicle laws is one thing. It is yet another matter to say that the registered owner got transmuted in its identity with the intervening events like the status given to the establishment as certified in Ext.P1. Therefore, if the petitioner provides in every vehicle due certification that appropriate application has been filed before the concerned registering authority in relation to each vehicle for rectification or change of the name of the owner of the vehicle, not following any transfer, the petitioner's vehicles will be permitted to ply WP(C)22068/09 -: 3 :- in the State of Kerala with the board Noorul Islam University for a period of six months within which the petitioner would be able to obtain appropriate orders from the competent statutory authorities in relation to each vehicle. The writ petition is ordered accordingly. THOTTATHIL B. RADHAKRISHNAN, JUDGE. Sha/070809