The NGT also impleaded Ministry of Road Transport and

Highways and Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) as parties in the case.

In June last year, Volkswagen had said it will recall 1.90 lakh cars sold in the country out of the 3.23 lakh vehicles as announced to fix the emission software and communication would be sent to the customers regarding this.

Earlier, the Indian arm of German auto major Volkswagen, which had denied installing "cheat device" in their cars, faced searching questions from the NGT which came down heavily on it for violation of emission norms in the country.

A cheat or defeat device is a software in diesel engines to manipulate emission tests by changing performance of cars.

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