I believe that, on the insistence (threats?) of the WTO, India was forced to allow the import of vehicles for anyone. That is when they, in a sly move to basically discourage this, introduced the ridiculous homologation requirement. With this rule, any vehicle that costs less than US$40,000 would need to be homologated first before it is allowed to be registered. In essence what this means is that you would need to buy 3-4 vehicles of the same make & model and hand those over to ARAI to conduct theirs tests on.
Then, after they approve it, you can import your personal car and register it. Albeit, you still have to pay the import duty for more than 100%. So legally, the Govt. has opened up the import of vehicles, but in reality, its now more closed then ever (except if you want a 40K$ or more vehicle).
This is why the TOR route is still, in reality, the only real way to bring a vehicle into India. For an individual that is.
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