Bengaluru: The Karnataka transportation department seized seven luxury cars in a special attack near UB City on Sunday, including Rolls-Royce Phantom he said was registered in the name Amitabh Bachchan.
RAID in Vittal Malla Road starts around 4pm and captures several top-end cars, including land rovers, Porsche and Jaguar, some of them parked in UB City.
Officials said that the cars were confiscated because of plying without paying taxes, the lack of documentation and the right insurance.
Of the seven vehicles, five are registered in Puducherry, where road tax is lacking, and two in Maharashtra.
Insurance has expired in most cars, officials said.
The transportation department team seized a luxury car during a special trip near UB City “people who drive Rolls-Royce Phantom (MH 02 BB 2) are identified as Salman Khan, who are around 35 years old and from Vasanthnagar.
His father reportedly bought a car from Bachchan,” said L Narendra Holkar, an additional transportation commissioner (enforcement).
The White Rolls-Royce Phantom is talented for Bollywood Star by Vidhu Vinod Chopra filmmakers about the success of the film, ‘Eklavya’, in 2007.
Bachchan reportedly sold it to Yusuf Shariff aka D Babu Umrah developer in 2019 but the car remained in the name of the actor, Officials said.
The source said the Rolls-Royce was bought by Babu but his ownership was reported not transferred from the name Bachchan.
However, there are no vehicle details on the Vahan-4 portal.
Time will be given to provide a valid paper: OpignInbu told reporters that he had directly bought a car from Bachchan.
“My family members use it on Sunday.
They took my vehicle along with other luxury cars.
They told me that they would let go when I sent a vehicle document.
The vehicle is still in the name Bachchan,” he said.
Confirm that the vehicle is still in the name of Bachchan, Holkar said, “A vehicle is not allowed to stab with the registration number of other countries outside 11 months from the date of migration.
But this car was bought from Bachchan on February 27, 2019.
Babu told us that he paid around Rs 6 Crore for cars.
He did not have the required documents.
However, he produced a letter signed by Bachchan who stated that the vehicle was sold to him.
“Holkar said time would be given to produce valid documents and if they failed to do it,” We will Decide the next action “.
On Monday, three car owners produce documents and update their injured insurance and we will give them a vehicle on Tuesday, “Holkar said.” The Supreme Court has repeatedly said that driving vehicles without insurance is illegal.
Most of these vehicles are registered in other states.
All cars confiscated are now in the regional transportation office of Nelamangala.
“Holkar said the department received a complaint that several luxury car owners used one number for several vehicles.” We have decided to take action against such people, “he said.
Karnataka collects one of the highest road taxes in India so many luxury car owners register In neighboring countries, it causes a big loss to the country.