Hanif Khan S/O Rustam Vs State of Rajasthan — Rajasthan HC (2026) — LawSathi Research

Hanif Khan S/O Rustam Vs State of Rajasthan — Rajasthan HC (2026) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Petition disposed of with directions: (i) petitioners to appear, with their vehicles and replies, before the concerned District Transport Officer/Competent Authority which suspended the registration certificates, within one week of the order; (ii) the Competent Authority to conduct hearing and pass orders within two weeks thereafter; (iii) vehicles not to be plied on public roads during that period except for production for verification/inspection. Removal from blacklisting/NTBT and costs (prayed for) were not specifically granted.

Issue for consideration

Whether the suspension of the petitioners' vehicle registration certificates — ordered on the ground of overloading/alteration without issuance of notice — warranted revocation/interference by the Court. +1 more

Court's answer

Keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the case and the limited prayer of learned counsel for both sides, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction that the petitioners shall appear, along with their respective vehicles and their replies, before the concerned District Transport Officer/Competent Authority — by which their registration certificates were suspended — mandatorily within one week from the date of the order.

Ratio / Principle

Thereafter, the Competent Authority shall conduct the hearing and pass orders within a period of two weeks.

Key takeaways

Except for taking the vehicles for verification/inspection before the concerned District Transport Officer/Competent Authority, the petitioners are not authorized to ply their vehicles on the public road for any other purpose during the said period.ratio¶¶37
The writ petition, along with pending miscellaneous applications, if any, stands disposed of accordingly.ratio¶¶38
The disposition was made considering the facts and circumstances of the case and the limited prayer made by the learned counsel for both sides (who had jointly submitted that the identical question stood settled by this Court's decisions in Kanwar Singh, S.B.C.W.P. No. 9721, and Mustak, S.B.C.W.P. 20073/2025); the Court did not itself adjudicate the underlying question.

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Vehicle registration certificate suspension — disposed of with directions to appear and avail hearing: Hanif Khan (owner of vehicle RJ40GA0267) and Babu Lal Saini (owner of vehicle RJ29GA6062) filed a writ petition aggrieved by orders of the Department of Mining and Geology suspending the Registration Certificates of their vehicles on the ground of overloading/alteration, allegedly without notice, and sought revocation of the suspension and removal of the vehicles from blacklisting/NTBT. Counsel for both sides jointly submitted that the identical question involved had already been settled by judicial decisions of this Court in Kanwar Singh & Ors. v. State of Rajasthan & Ors., S.B.C.W.P. No. 9721, and Mustak and Ors. v. State of Rajasthan & Ors., S.B.C.W.P. 20073/2025, and prayed that this case likewise be disposed in their light. Shubha Mehta, J., considering the facts and circumstances and the limited prayer, disposed of the writ petition with directions that the petitioners shall mandatorily appear, with their vehicles and replies, before the concerned District Transport Officer/Competent Authority (which had suspended the certificates) within one week from the date of the order; the Competent Authority shall thereafter conduct the hearing and pass orders within two weeks; and, save for producing the vehicles for verification/inspection, the petitioners shall not ply the vehicles on public roads for any other purpose during that period. The petition, with pending applications if any, stands disposed of accordingly (order dated 02/07/2026).