[Letter to Regional Transport Officer]

Summary

This 23 November 1976 letter from S. V. Raju to the Regional Transport Officer in Bombay concerns a series of notices about motor-vehicle tax records. Raju encloses a photocopy of a 29 March 1976 letter by V. P. Bhatia of the Bharatiya Lok Dal, which reportedly confirms that Bhatia had discussed the vehicles with S. R. Tracy of the transport office. Raju states that the vehicles, registered in January 1971, were never brought back to Bombay after being sold in the areas where they were located.

Raju asks the officer to mark the relevant vehicles in the records, correct the records accordingly, and treat the notices as cancelled. The remaining pages reproduce Regional Transport Office notices and postcards addressed principally to M. R. Masani and Padma Vaswani, and in one instance to S. V. Raju. These notices assert that motor-vehicle taxes have remained unpaid, invoke sections 16 and 12 of the Bombay Motor Vehicles Tax Act, 1958, and warn of prosecution, recovery as land revenue, and further action if payment or proof of payment is not supplied.

Key points

• S. V. Raju’s letter is dated 23 November 1976 and addressed to the Regional Transport Officer, Bombay.
• The letter concerns D.N. Nos. 428, 429, 430, 434, 436, 441, 442, 443 and 444.
• Raju encloses a photocopy of a letter by V. P. Bhatia of the Bharatiya Lok Dal concerning the vehicles.
• The vehicles were said to have been registered in January 1971, sold outside Bombay, and never returned to Bombay.
• Raju asks that the relevant records be corrected and the cited notices treated as cancelled.
• Attached notices claim unpaid motor-vehicle taxes and threaten prosecution and recovery under the Bombay Motor Vehicles Tax Act, 1958.
• The attached postal cards are addressed mainly to M. R. Masani and Padma Vaswani, with one addressed to S. V. Raju.