The Coimbatore City Police have started looking out for the owners of seized vehicles that have remained unclaimed in police stations in the city over the last few years.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Law and Order, Pravesh Kumar said that there were about 750 seized vehicles in the 15 police stations in the city.
“The drive to return the vehicles started about three weeks ago. The police are in search of the persons on whose names the vehicles were registered and are returning them. We have returned about 100 such vehicles,” he said.
The aim of the drive is to cleanup police stations from becoming a dump yard for unused vehicles and put the vehicles to use.
The Deputy Commissioner said that vehicles piled up in police stations were of three categories.
The first were vehicles seized as the riders did not have proper documents. The next were vehicles that could not be returned as accidents or crime cases involving the vehicles were pending in court. The other were vehicles remained unclaimed in a public place for a long time and were brought to the stations,” he said.
Mr. Pravesh Kumar noted that a majority of these unclaimed vehicles could have been returned to the owner if they produced the required documents.
“But they did not do it for reasons best known to them. Some of the vehicles were seized more than six years ago. Majority of these vehicles are two-wheelers followed by a few four-wheelers and other heavy vehicles such as trucks,” he added.
Priority was given to hand over vehicles that were seized many years ago.
“Vehicles for which we are unable to find owners due to multiple transfer of ownership, without transferring the documents, will be auctioned through the Revenue Department in the next few months,” the Deputy Commissioner said.
