"5. It is submitted that on 27/7/2018 the Registered Owner submitted an application for alteration vide Receipt No.114364/2018. In the application the Registered Owner submitted that it was due to her ignorance that she failed to obtain prior sanction from the authority for engine replacement. As per the section 52(3) any alteration has been made in motor vehicle without the approval of registering authority or by reason of replacement of its engine without such approval under sub-section (2), the owner of the vehicle shall, within fourteen days of the making of the alteration, report the alteration to the registering authority within whose jurisdiction he resides and shall forward the certificate of registration to that authority together with the prescribed fee in order that particulars of registration may be entered therein. This respondent had already given the petitioner two chances to offer her explanation in this regard. But she ignored the same. Also, in the written explanation produced as Exhibit P7, submitted by the Registered Owner on 13/08/2018, the petitioner has pointed out a typographical mistake in the notice issued by this authority where sec 55(5) was incorrectly written as Rule 55, under which RC cancellation was proposed to be taken. The petitioner has also submitted that Rule 55 Kerala Motor Vehicles Rules cannot be invoked in this instance since the Rule deals with sealing of
