The High Court of Karnataka has directed the State government to formulate and publish a scheme within 15 days to ensure that vehicle manufacturers grant approval across the board to all the High Security Registration Plate (HSRP) manufacturers possessing Type Approval Certificate (TAC) to fix HSRPs to all the old vehicles registered before April 1, 2019, in Karnataka.
The government’s August 17 notification had left it to the discretion of the vehicle manufacturers to fix HSRPs only through their dealers by procuring the registration plates from TAC possessing HSRP manufacturers of their choice.
Justice B.M. Shyam Prasad issued the interim directions on the petitions filed by HSRP Manufacturers’ Association of India and some of the individual HSRP manufacturing firms possessing TAC.
