3 min learnNew DelhiUp to date: Aug 25, 2026 04:19 PM IST
A Gwalior man’s white Swift automobile was coated in over 3,400 kiss marks by his girlfriend lately, prompting police motion. A Rs 5,500 tremendous was imposed on the person and he was requested to wash the automobile to take away the marks. The police motion got here two days after the automobile started plying on the roads and its visuals started making the rounds on social media, PTI reported. Automobile proprietor Aditya Sikarwar instructed reporters that his girlfriend determined to brighten the automobile on this method following a “international pattern”.
He has now been fined beneath the Motor Automobiles Act of 1988, which, amongst different provisions on registration and obligatory security measures, prescribes guidelines for alterations to motor autos.
A person removes his girlfriend’s kiss marks from a automobile. (PTI Photograph)
What does the MV Act say about alterations to autos?
Section 52 of the MV Act particulars provisions on motor autos alterations, describing the time period as “a change within the construction of a car which ends up in a change in its fundamental function.”
Sub-section (1) says, “No proprietor of a motorized vehicle shall so alter the car that the particulars contained within the certificates of registration are at variance with these initially specified by the producer…”
With the intention to drive their autos, all drivers should get hold of Registration Certifications (RCs) issued by the native Regional Transport Workplace (RTO). It consists of data such because the car registration quantity, its color, and engine quantity. Alterations can not differ from the main points registered within the RC. Part 52 doesn’t enable modifications to a car with out following process or updating registration information.
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Some exceptions are talked about within the legislation. These embody modifications of the engine, or any of its elements, “for facilitating its operation by totally different kind of gasoline or supply of power together with battery, compressed pure gasoline, solar energy…” beneath specified situations.
Additional, when making modifications, the proprietor of the car shall, inside 14 days of the making of the alteration, report it to the registering authority inside whose jurisdiction she or he resides and shall ahead the RC to that authority along with the prescribed payment. If that registering authority differs from the unique registering authority, they need to talk the main points of the entry to the unique authority.
And what’s the punishment for violation?
Part 182A(4) of the MV Act says that any car that’s altered in a fashion not prescribed beneath the Act shall be punishable with imprisonment upto six months or tremendous of Rs 5,000.
Additional, Part 177 on normal provisions for punishment mentions a primary offence penalty of Rs 500 in instances when there’s a violation of an MV Act provision however no particular penalty. That is why the person on this case needed to pay a complete tremendous of Rs 5,500.
