The complicated process has been made simplified by VAHAN, a national vehicle registry platform introduced by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in 2011. Through the website or smartphone application of VAHAN, you can know the basic details of more than 28 crore vehicles digitally registered across various Regional Transport Offices (RTO) in India.
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The first step is to visit the official website of VAHAN, which is a platform officially authorized by the Indian Government. On this platform, you can follow a step-by-step process by inserting just the vehicle's registration number. Here is the two-step process:
After starting the search for a vehicle owner on VAHAN, you are presented with a list of some key details of the vehicle owner, which are in sync with the Motor Vehicles Act 1988.
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Following are the details of a vehicle owner, which can be accessed using VAHAN
An SMS is the shortest way of knowing an information from one person or source, and that includes the details of a vehicle owner. All you need to do is follow these simple two steps:
After sending this message, the details of the vehicle owner will come to your number within a few seconds.
If you get stopped by a traffic policeman during a regular patrolling process and are asked to show your vehicle documents, you can show them by using ‘DigiLocker'. It is an authorized application where your vehicle documents can be seen in digitized form. These documents are then verified after cross-checking by the traffic policeman using VAHAN.
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Also, using VAHAN, you can know the basic details of a traffic law offender or road rage and nuisance creator, which can be helpful while registering an FIR.
