The car, belonging to Super Cassette Industries, owners of the T-series trademark, and being used by the company’s chairman Bhushan Kumar, has a Puducherry registration
The flying squad of the Regional Transport Office Andheri seized a Mercedes Maybach S 500 car on Saturday for non-payment of road and registration tax in Maharashtra. The car, belonging to Super Cassette Industries, owners of the T-series trademark, and being used by the company’s chairman Bhushan Kumar, has a Puducherry registration (PY 05 A 4040).
Speaking to DNA, Govind Saindane, Regional Transport Officer, Andheri said the car was seized because if the car was being used in Mumbai, then under the Maharashtra Motor Vehicles, the road tax has to be paid in Maharashtra. He said that this car will attract a road tax of 20 per cent of its cost. The cost of a Maybach, depending on the customisation, could run into several crores of rupees, officials said on condition of anonymity.
Saindane said that the owners of the car have been asked to submit valid bills and documents pertaining to the car at the RTO office on Monday and the tax would be calculated accordingly.
“There are several such cars plying on the streets of Mumbai whose owners are bonafide residents of Mumbai but have registered their cars showing temporary addresses in other states where road tax is lower than Maharashtra. However, the owners of these cars use them on city roads so it is only natural that tax should come into the state’s coffers,” Saindane told DNA. An official spokesperson, speaking on behalf of Bhushan Kumar, told DNA that the car belonged to the company and was bought in Delhi. “It is driven by
Mr Kumar’s, mother who is visiting Mumbai. We have called for all the papers relating to the car from our Delhi office and we will be submitting it to the RTO Andheri on Monday,” the spokesperson said.
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