FAISALABAD, Oct 22: Registration documents of hundreds of private transport vehicles, impounded over a fortnight ago for election duty, have not been returned to the owners yet.

Talking to newsmen here on Tuesday, a group of transporters said most of them had also not been paid the fare.

They said that thousands of wagons, buses, trucks, mini-trucks and other vehicles were impounded from different parts of the district by police and administration a week before the general elections.

The police also seized vehicles’ registration documents to ensure the presence of drivers, they said.

They said that the Punjab government and the Election Commission had announced that the owners of the impounded vehicles would be paid adequate fare shortly after the elections. But most of them had not been paid fare so far.

The transporters said that drivers of their vehicles were not ready to come on road without registration documents “to avoid wrath of the traffic police.” As a result, that were facing financial problems.

The claimed that owners of 70 per cent impounded vehicles had been running from pillar to post since Oct 11 to get registration documents of their vehicles and the fare.

They urged the Punjab governor to take notice of the situation and order the authorities concerned to immediately make payment of fare and return the registration documents of vehicles.