Re: Consumer court: Used car dealer liable for selling stolen car & lack of verification One has to remain extra vigilant on dealing with used cars & dealers.
An acquaintance who's a college professor had sold his car to an used car dealer in Tiruvallur, TN & bought a new car. A few weeks later on a early morning, a police jeep rams into professor's house, without much talks, they arrest the professor & take him away. Biggest problem was...LANGUAGE!! Police spoke Telugu, while professor knows only Thamizh. They took him to some station in Chittoor & filed FIR immediately. All of this happens in a blink of an eye.
Later that day, the whole story unfolds as, the car which the professor had sold to dealer was used for a theft at jewelry shop in the locality where professor was arrested with the car being misused with or without the knowledge of used car dealer. All the sale agreement docos were thrown to bin by police. Incidentally the owner of jewelry shop was very influential to get the police work on the case swiftly & hence the professor's arrest.
It took about a month or so to prove the innocence of professor & the jewelry shop owner was OK to let the matters drop & was keen to nab the real accused & not with the one falsely accused. |