Draft rules to be notified making dealer liable once vehicle is sold

once a car is handed over with due intimation, the dealer would be deemed the owner and held liable for any incidents during possession, According to the draft rules

On December 13, 2001, a white Ambassador with a fake ministry sticker rolled into Parliament, carrying five armed men who launched a deadly terror attack. Investigations later revealed the car had changed hands several times, but the regional transport office (RTO) records still listed it under a prominent leasing and financial services firm. The paperwork had never caught up with reality. 

Something similar, though with financial consequences, played out for Naveen Kumar. He had sold his motorcycle in 1994, only to be jolted more than two decades later when the Supreme Court, in 2018, held him liable for a 1999