THE high court issued the order to seize cars without any number plates or with fancy ones. The police are taking it wrongly and seized our car as we applied for new registration.

It has been two months, and we have not received the new plate.

The excise and taxation department is saying that they did not have funds to make new number plates. They stamped the registration paper with ‘number plate not issued’ mentioned on it.

Our car was stopped in SITE area, Karachi. We were having a plate made by the vendor. The police said that court had issued the order to seize all cars without the official number plate.

We did show them all registration papers and book and the stamp which said the plate has not been issued. The police refused to listen, and our car was held up at the police station.

We again went to the excise and taxation department motor wing. The official again stamped the same paper, saying that there was no number plate to be issued. We went to the police station but were told that we could not drive the car without the official plate and we did that, police would seize it.

We have already paid the registration fees including plate charges. Can anyone help us? Can the court modify the order that those car owners whose number plates have not been issued can drive their vehicles?

M. Arif

Karachi

Published in Dawn, August 9th, 2014